Geographies of Nationhood - Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic

Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Russian Empire's Baltic provinces as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Networks of Cartographic Influence, Patronage, and Reception


• 2: Provincial Map Production and the Rise of Cartographic Entrepreneurship


• 3: The Baltic Question in Cartographic Imagination


• 4: Mapping Latvians in Local and Global Perspectives


• 5: Post-War Ethnic Boundary Mapping from Above and Below


• Epilogue: Afterlives of Maps

About the author

Catherine Gibson is a historian of modern Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in 2019. She is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Borders, and Identities and her research has appeared in the journals Past & Present, Journal of Social History, Journal of History Geography, and Nationalities Papers.

Summary

Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Russian Empire's Baltic provinces as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood.

Additional text

This monograph deserves attention not only from historians of cartography and the Baltic region, but also from specialists of empire, nation, as well as transnational and intellectual histories.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Gibson, Catherine (Research Fellow Gibson, Gibson Catherine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192844323
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284432-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Historical Geography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Historical Geography