Imperial Visions
Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865
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- Author: Mark Bassin, University College London
- Date Published: June 1999
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521391740
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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 mentalité 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.
Read more- Major contribution to the study of Russia's imperial mentality
- Demonstrates the importance of the geographical dimension of Russian nationalism and national identity
- Foreword by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (University of California, Berkeley): one of the foremost Anglo-American historians of Russia
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'Mark Bassin's Imperial Visions is a work that will be appreciated by specialists in a wide array of disciplines. This is a masterful, groundbreaking book that combines intellectual history and geography in a way that has not been done before, shining a new light on the issues of Russian identity and the interrelationship between exploration, conquest and nationalism.' H-Net
See more reviews'… a solid work of scholarship … a detailed study for the specialist reader, and a definitive work on a generally neglected aspect of nineteenth-century empire-building which may prove one day to be of great geopolitical importance.' Asian Affairs
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- Date Published: June 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521391740
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- contains: 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Map of the Russian Far East (c.1860)
Part I:
1. Early visions and divinations
2. National identity and world mission
3. The rediscovery of the Amur
4. The push to the Pacific
Part II: Introduction
5. Dreams of a Siberian Mississippi
6. Civilizing a savage realm
7. Poised on the Manchurian frontier
8. The Amur and its discontents
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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