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Imperial Visions - Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Paperback, New)
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Imperial Visions - Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a
dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the
Amur and Ussuri rivers. Although this remote realm was a virtual
terra incognita for the Russian educated public, the acquisition of
an 'Asian Mississippi' attracted great attention nonetheless, even
stirring the dreams of Russia's most outstanding visionaries.
Within a decade of its acquisition, however, the dreams were gone
and the Amur region largely abandoned and forgotten. In an
innovative examination of Russia's perceptions of the new
territories in the Far East, Mark Bassin sets the Amur enigma
squarely in the context of the Zeitgeist in Russia at the time.
Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of
geographical imagination in the mentalite of imperial Russia. This
1999 work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and
ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism,
geographical identity and imperial expansion.
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