Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801472539 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maps as a focus for the Russian narrative Tom Lots of studies of history have often used maps as illustrations to show growth of "empires" or "civilizations." Kivelson actually focuses on how maps evolve over time and on different types of maps. Often maps are used to "claim" territory so disputes arise that h. Fascinating It seems that maps are getting the attention they deserve. A lot of attention and care to an almost unexplored field. Excellent result. A pity money considerations prevented more color plates. A bit too much of black and white.. LT Haddrill said Not Happy With This At All. The Book was fine however the condition was not as described Lots of written comments throughout the text and not what I wanted This was the only one available however had I been aware I would have waited until a better copy was available
Toward the end of the sixteenth century, and throughout the seventeenth, thinking in spatial terms assumed extraordinary urgency among Russia's ruling elites. This handsomely illustrated and beautifully written book, which features twenty-four pages of color plates, will appeal to everyone fascinated by the history of Russia and all who are intrigued by the art of mapmaking.. In Cartographies of Tsardom, Valerie Kivelson explores how these twin themes of fixity and mobility obliged Russians, from tsar to peasant, to think in spatial terms. The unresolved, perhaps unresolvable, tension between these contrary impulses was both the strength and the weakness of empire in Russia. In both the simple (but strikingly beautiful and even moving) maps that local residents drafted and in the more formal maps of the newly conquered Siberian spaces, Kivelson shows that the Russians saw the land (be it a peasant's plot or the Siberian taiga) as marked by the grace of divine providence. In her words, the Russian empire that took shape in the decades before Peter the Great proclaimed its existence was a "spacious mantle," a "patchwork quilt of difference under a single ts
Valerie Kivelson provides a compelling argument for using visual material as evidence of a consultative rather than dictatorial autocracy in Early Modern Russia. In the charting of physical space, provincial Russians appear determined to mark the value of their own sociopolitical status, all the while conceiving their place in the world within an articulated model of paradise."Michael Flier, Harvard University"In this imaginative and provocative book, Valerie Kivelson explores early Russian maps as a source
Rowland, and Orthodox Russia: Studies in Belief and Practice.. She is coeditor of Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture,The New Muscovite Cultural History: A Collection in Honor of Daniel B. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Valerie Kivelson is Arthur F. She is the author of Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia and Cartographies