Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-...
Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-...
Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 / Mark Bassin.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N957.7/6
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English
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xv, 329 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Contents
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. Poise...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"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 innovative examination of Russia's perceptions of the new ter...
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Imperial visions : nationalist imagination and geographical expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 / Mark Bassin.
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Cambridge studies in historical geography ; 29.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-321) and index.
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N957.7/6
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74VKwVV87bod
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0521391741 (hbk.)
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0521391741 :
9780521391740 (hbk.)
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957.7
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991018347819702626
