| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Nesting narratives : the history and historiography of Muscovite cartography -- Engaging with the law : cartography, autocracy, and Muscovite legality -- Signs in space : landscape and property in a serf-owning society -- "The souls of the righteous in a bright place" : landscape and orthodoxy in seventeenth-century Russian maps -- Messages in the land : Siberian maps and providential narratives -- "Exalted and glorified to the ends of the earth" : Christianity and colonialism -- "Myriad, countless foreigners" : Siberia's human geography and Muscovite conceptions of empire -- Under the sovereign's mighty hand : colonial subjects and Muscovite imperial policies |
| Summary |
By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Russia -- History -- 17th century
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Cartography -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 17th century
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Cartography.
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Kartografie
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Soziale Situation
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Cartografie.
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Russia.
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Rusland.
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0801444098 |
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9780801444098 |
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0801472539 |
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9780801472534 |
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