Portrait of a Russian province
Subtitle: economy, society, and civilization in nineteenth-century Nizhnii Novgorod
By: Catherine Evtuhov
Series: Pitt series in Russian and East European studies; Series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822961710
Subjects: Country life; Civilization; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Intellectual life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining the Russian Provinces; title: Soil, forest, river : the ecology of provincial life; title: Urban topography; title: Rhythms : the local economy; title: An Artisanal case study: the Southeast; title: Social space : numbers, images, biographies; title: Managing the province : local administration; title: The Cadastral map in the service of the Zemstvo; title: Church and religion; title: Provincial cultural nests; title: The idea of province.