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    Reconnoitring Russia

    Mapping, exploring and describing early modern Russia, 1613-1825

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    Author(s)
    Shaw, Denis J. B.
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Like many European countries during the Great Age of Discovery and Exploration, Russia embarked on policies of state building, exploration and imperial expansion. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the territory under Moscow’s control was about twenty thousand square kilometres. By 1800 Russia’s empire had expanded to some eighteen million square kilometres. Russia had thus become one of the world’s greatest empires. By focusing on such geographical practices as exploring, observing, describing, mapping and similar activities, Reconnoitring Russia seeks to explain how Russia’s rulers and its educated public came to know and understand the territory of their expanding state and empire, especially as a result of the modernizing policies of such sovereigns as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. It places the Russian experience into a comparative context, showing how that experience compares with those of other European countries over the same period. The book adopts a broad chronological framework, exploring the age between 1613 when the Romanov dynasty assumed power and 1825, the conclusion of Alexander I’s reign, or what is often termed the end of the ‘long eighteenth century’. Praise for *Reconnoitring Russia** 'Reconnoitring Russia* is an original contribution to two fields of scholarship: history of geography as a science and practices of exploration, and the history of the Russian Empire. The author was one of the most devoted historians of the geography of Russia and this is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of geographical knowledge in the period under study to be published either in English or in Russian.' Julia Lajus, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences and Humanities (NIAS) in Amsterdam
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94748
    Keywords
    cartography; state building; early modern period; Great Age of Discovery and Exploration; geographical thought; history of science; modernizing reforms; Russian imperial expansion; Catherine the Great; Peter the Great; European empire building; Russian environmental history
    DOI
    10.14324/111.9781800085909
    ISBN
    9781800085909, 9781800085916, 9781800085923, 9781800085930, 9781787353053, 9781787359918, 9781800082373, 9781800085909
    Publisher
    UCL Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.uclpress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    London, 2024
    Classification
    Historical maps and atlases
    Colonialism and imperialism
    Pages
    224
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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