Title Geographies of nationhood : cartography, science, and society in the Russian imperial Baltic / Catherine Gibson

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Oxford Studies in Modern European History Oxford studies in modern European history. Summary "Geographies of Nationhood examines the meteoric rise of ethnographic mapmaking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a form of visual and material culture that gave expression to territorialised visions of nationhood. In the Russian Empire’s Baltic provinces, the development of ethnographic cartography, as part of the broader field of statistical data visualisation, progressively became a tool that lent legitimacy and an experiential dimension to nationalist arguments, as well as a wide range of alternative spatial configurations that rendered the inhabitants of the Baltic as part of local, imperial, and global geographies. The book argues that map production and the spread of cartographic literacy as a mass phenomenon in Baltic society transformed how people made sense of linguistic, ethnic, and religious similarities and differences by imbuing them with an alleged scientific objectivity that was later used to determine the political structuring of the Baltic region and beyond. The book treads new ground by expanding the focus beyond elites to include a diverse range of mapmakers, such as local bureaucrats, commercial enterprises, clergymen, family members, teachers, and landowners. It shifts the focus from imperial learned and military institutions to examine the proliferation of mapmaking across diverse sites in the Russian Empire, including the provincial administration, local learned societies, private homes, and schools. Understanding ethnographic maps in the social context of their production, circulation, consumption, and reception is crucial for assessing their impact as powerful shapers of popular geographical conceptions of nationhood, state-building, and border-drawing"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 17, 2023) Subject Ethnology -- Russia -- History -- 19th century Ethnology -- Russia -- History -- 20th century Ethnology -- Baltic States -- History -- 19th century Ethnology -- Baltic States -- History -- 20th century Cartography -- Russia -- History -- 19th century Cartography -- Russia -- History -- 20th century Nationalism -- Baltic States -- History Language and culture -- Russia -- History Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 19th century Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century Cartography Ethnology Language and culture Nationalism Baltic States Russia Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191927058 0191927058 9780192658296 0192658298

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