Mapping Europe's Borderlands : Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire.

The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seegel, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Cartography > Political aspects > Russia.
Cartography > Political aspects > Europe, Eastern.
Cartographie > Aspect politique > Russie.
Cartographie > Aspect politique > Europe de l'Est.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Cartography.
International relations
Cartografie.
Politieke aspecten.
Russia > Relations > Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern > Relations > Russia.
Europe de l'Est > Relations > Russie.
Eastern Europe
Russia
Rusland.
Oost-Europa.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; 1. Early Modern Cartography and Power in European Russia and Poland
  • Lithuania; 2. Enlightenment to Romantic Historical Claims between Imperial Russia and East Central Europe; 3. Purposes of Early 19th
  • Century Russian Imperial Cartography; 4. Purposes of Early 19th
  • Century Polish National Cartography; 5. Mid
  • 19th
  • Century Cartography and the Idea of Progress in Russian Empirecraft; 6. Modern European Ethnoschematization and the Vienna
  • St. Petersburg Axis.
  • 7. Late 19th- Century Russian Imperial Schemes and Habsburg
  • Polish Cartographic Borrowings in Galicia8. Borderlands as Modern Homelands? Mapping Ukraine and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 9. Nationalizing Cartography in the Borderlands before World War I; 10. Political Cartography in East Central Europe during World War I; Conclusion: Purposes of Maps in the Borderlands of 1919; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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