| Description |
1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents -- 1 Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor-General's Wife -- 2 Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva's Central Asian Sketches -- Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game -- 3 Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India -- 4 Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs |
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Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers -- 5 In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol'ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskov'ia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Women -- Travel -- Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century
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Imperialism and science -- Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century
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Imperialism and science -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
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Colonization
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Imperialism and science
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Territorial expansion
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Women -- Travel
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| SUBJECT |
Russia -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
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Asia, Central -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Central Asia
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1487545614 |
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9781487545611 |
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