TY  - BOOK
ED  - Franklin, Simon
ED  - Bowers, Katherine
AB  - "From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people.  Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications."
DO  - 10.11647/OBP.0122
ID  - OAPEN ID: 641859
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1023047882
KW  - news circulation
KW  - postal service
KW  - russian empire
KW  - maps and atlases
KW  - history of communication
KW  - information
KW  - signs and monuments
KW  - communication
KW  - Apothecary
KW  - Grand Duchy of Moscow
KW  - Moscow
KW  - Saint Petersburg
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6e264bb7-c30e-4d98-8f8d-5d3ffbb1cb9c/641859.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30830
PB  - Open Book Publishers
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781783743735
TI  - Information and Empire : Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1854
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