Reconnoitring Russia
Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, exploration and imperial expansion. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the territory under Moscow’s control was about twenty thousand square kilometres. By 1800 Rus...
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| description | Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, exploration and imperial expansion. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the territory under Moscow’s control was about twenty thousand square kilometres. By 1800 Russia’s empire had expanded to some eighteen million square kilometres. Russia had thus become one of the world’s greatest empires. By focusing on such geographical practices as exploring, observing, describing, mapping and similar activities, Reconnoitring Russia seeks to explain how Russia’s rulers and its educated public came to know and understand the territory of their expanding state and empire, especially as a result of the modernizing policies of such sovereigns as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. It places the Russian experience into a comparative context, showing how that experience compares with those of other European countries over the same period. The book adopts a broad chronological framework, exploring the age between 1613 when the Romanov dynasty assumed power and 1825, the conclusion of Alexander I’s reign, or what is often termed the end of the ‘long eighteenth century’. Praise for *Reconnoitring Russia** 'Reconnoitring Russia* is an original contribution to two fields of scholarship: history of geography as a science and practices of exploration, and the history of the Russian Empire. The author was one of the most devoted historians of the geography of Russia and this is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of geographical knowledge in the period under study to be published either in English or in Russian.' Julia Lajus, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences and Humanities (NIAS) in Amsterdam |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1481152024-11-20T04:52:14Z Reconnoitring Russia Shaw, Denis J. B. cartography state building early modern period Great Age of Discovery and Exploration geographical thought history of science modernizing reforms Russian imperial expansion Catherine the Great Peter the Great European empire building Russian environmental history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography::NHTP1 Historical maps and atlases thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, exploration and imperial expansion. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the territory under Moscow’s control was about twenty thousand square kilometres. By 1800 Russia’s empire had expanded to some eighteen million square kilometres. Russia had thus become one of the world’s greatest empires. By focusing on such geographical practices as exploring, observing, describing, mapping and similar activities, Reconnoitring Russia seeks to explain how Russia’s rulers and its educated public came to know and understand the territory of their expanding state and empire, especially as a result of the modernizing policies of such sovereigns as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. It places the Russian experience into a comparative context, showing how that experience compares with those of other European countries over the same period. The book adopts a broad chronological framework, exploring the age between 1613 when the Romanov dynasty assumed power and 1825, the conclusion of Alexander I’s reign, or what is often termed the end of the ‘long eighteenth century’. Praise for *Reconnoitring Russia** 'Reconnoitring Russia* is an original contribution to two fields of scholarship: history of geography as a science and practices of exploration, and the history of the Russian Empire. The author was one of the most devoted historians of the geography of Russia and this is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of geographical knowledge in the period under study to be published either in English or in Russian.' Julia Lajus, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences and Humanities (NIAS) in Amsterdam 2024-11-20T04:52:11Z 2024-11-20T04:52:11Z 2024-11-19T08:57:07Z 2024 book ONIX_20241119_9781800085909_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94748 9781800085909 9781800085916 9781800085923 9781800085930 9781787353053 9781787359918 9781800082373 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/148115 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94748/1/9781800085909.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800085909 10.14324/111.9781800085909 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800085909 9781800085916 9781800085923 9781800085930 9781787353053 9781787359918 9781800082373 224 London open access |
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