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Cartographies of Tsardom : the land and its meanings in seventeenth-century Russia
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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 i...
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.
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- Creator
- Valerie Kivelson
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- English
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006
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- xiv, 263 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801472534, 9780801444098, 0801472539, 0801444098
- OCLC
- ocm64896626, on1125160281
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
- 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