| Description |
xiv, 263 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Russia -- History -- 17th century.
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Cartography. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Cartography -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History -- 17th century.
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Social aspects. |
| ISBN |
0801472539 paperback alkaline paper |
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0801444098 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780801444098 |
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9780801472534 |
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