[PDF.56yz] Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

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 | #331522 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2006-08-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.20 x7.00l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Maps as a focus for the Russian narrative|By Tom|Lots of studies of history have often used maps as illustrations to show growth of "empires" or "civilizations." Kivelson actually focuses on how maps evolve over time and on different types of maps. Often maps are used to "claim" territory so disputes arise that have different maps for the same area. She makes conclusions based| |"Valerie Kivelson has produced an extraordinarily impressive book, a pioneering and penetrating study of maps produced by Russians in the seventeenth century. . . . Her research casts fresh light on such major themes of seventeenth-century Russian history as t

Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. The two great developments of this era in Russian history-the enserfment of the peasantry and the conquest of a vast Eastern empire-fundamentally concerned spatial control and concepts of movements across the land. In Cartographies of Tsardom, Valerie Kivelson explores how these twin themes of fixity and mobility o...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia   |  Valerie Kivelson. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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