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This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either "competed" in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.).
List of contents
List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Poland or Russia? Lithuania on the Russian Mental Map Darius Stali¿nas Chapter 2: Images of Lithuania in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Zita Medišauskien¿ Chapter 3: The Pre-1914 Creation of Lithuanian "National Territory" Darius Stali¿nas Chapter 4: ¿LithuaniäAn Extension of Poland¿: The Territorial Image of Lithuania in the Polish Discourse Olga Mastianica and Darius Stali¿nas Chapter 5: Between Ethnographic Belarus and the Reestablishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: How Belarusian Nationalism Created Its ¿National Territory¿ at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Olga Mastianica Chapter 6 Lite on the Jewish Mental Maps Vladimir Levin and Darius Stali¿nas Chapter 7: Lithuania in the Spatial Concepts of Germans and Prussian Lithuanians Vasilijus Safronovas Chapter 8: In Lieu of a Conclusion Index
About the author
Darius Stali¿nas is the author of
Making Russians. Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007);
Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest/New York: CEU Press, 2015); and
Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883-1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015; co-author ¿ Dangiras Mäiulis). Since 2000 Stali¿nas has been a deputy director at Lithuanian Institute of History. He teaches at Vilnius and Klaip¿da universities. His research interests include issues of Russian nationality policy in the so-called Northwestern Region (Lithuania and Belorussia), ethnic conflicts, as well as problems of historiography and places of memory in Lithuania.
Summary
Deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either “competed” in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, etc.). The Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German geo-images of this territory are analyzed in separate chapters of this volume.
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“This book is a great example of interdisciplinary
research that goes over the accepted boundaries of the national narrative.
Thanks to this, Staliunas’s edited volume is an important component for every
version of [Lithuanian] national historiography. Its authors’ methodological
approach uncovers the multivalence of national myths and highlights the
importance of the global context that helps overcome ‘methodological
nationalism.’”
—Gennady Korolev, Ab Imperio
