A world of empires
Subtitle: the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada
By: Edyta M. Bojanowska
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780674976405
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Pallada (Ship); Voyages and travels; Criticism and interpretation; Foreign relations
Description: 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 European powers and determined to define Russia against them.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From London to Cape Town, or how to run a successful empire; title: Pineapples in Petersburg, cabbage soup on the Equator; title: Prying open Japan, prospecting Korea; title: Eastward ho!; title: Russians confront human diversity; title: The bestseller and its afterlife.