A world of empires : the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada /

Edyta Bojanowska uses Ivan Goncharov's gripping travelogue--a bestseller in nineteenth-century Russia--as a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an assertive empire eager to emulate Europ...

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Author / Creator: Bojanowska, Edyta M. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
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