Imperial Visions - Nationalist Imagination Geographical Expansion in Russian Far East,

Informationen zum Autor Mark Bassin is Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas! in the Center for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Klappentext An intellectual/historiographical examination of the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalite of imperial Russia. Zusammenfassung Written from the perspective of both historical geography and intellectual history, Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalité of imperial Russia. This 1999 work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism, geographical identity, and imperial expansion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Nicholas V. Riasanovsky; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Map of the Russian Far East (c.1860); Part I: 1. Early visions and divinations; 2. National identity and world mission; 3. The rediscovery of the Amur; 4. The push to the Pacific; Part II: Introduction; 5. Dreams of a Siberian Mississippi; 6. Civilizing a savage realm; 7. Poised on the Manchurian frontier; 8. The Amur and its discontents; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Mark Bassin, Mark (University College London) Bassin
• Assisted by: Alan R. H. Baker (Editor), Richard Dennis (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521026741
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02674-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous