Main entry:

Seegel, Steven.

Title & Author:

Mapping Europe's borderlands : Russian cartography in the age of empire / Steven Seegel.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]

Description:

xi, 368 pages, 17 color plates : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-342) and index.
Early modern cartography and power in European Russia and Poland-Lithuania -- Enlightenment to romantic historical claims between imperial Russia and east central Europe -- Purposes of early 19th-century Russian imperial cartography -- Purposes of early 19th-century Polish national cartography -- Mid-19th-century cartography and the idea of progress in Russian empirecraft -- Modern European ethnoschematization and the Vienna-St. Petersburg axis -- Late 19th-century Russian imperial schemes and Habsburg-Polish cartographic borrowings in Galicia -- Borderlands as modern homelands? mapping Ukraine and the grand duchy of Lithuania -- Nationalizing cartography in the borderlands before World War I -- Political cartography in east central Europe during World War I -- Conclusion: purposes of maps in the borderlands of 1919.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This work takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers.

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Contents

ISBN:

9780226744254 (cloth)
0226744256 (cloth)

Subject:

Cartography Political aspects Russia.
Cartography Political aspects Europe, Eastern.
Cartographie Aspect politique Russie.
Cartographie Aspect politique Europe de l'Est.
International relations.
Kartografie
Politik
Russia Relations Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern Relations Russia.
Europe de l'Est Relations Russie.
Eastern Europe.
Russia.
Russland
Osteuropa

Form/genre:

Hochschulschrift.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279960
Call No.: BIB 216276
Status: Available