Cartographies of Tsardom the land and its meanings in seventeenth-century Russia

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Main Author: Kivelson, Valerie
Format: Book
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 2006
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Table of 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