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Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 /
"In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Within a decade of its acquisition, however, the dreams were gone and the Amur region was largely abandoned and forgotten. In an innova...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in historical geography ;
29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
- Map of the Russian Far East (c. 1860)
- 1. Early visions and divinations
- 2. National identity and world mission
- 3. The rediscovery of the Amur
- 4. The push to the Pacific
- 5. Dreams of a Siberian Mississippi
- 6. Civilizing a savage realm
- 7. Poised on the Manchurian frontier
- 8. The Amur and its discontents.