Information and empire : mechanisms of communication in Russia, 1600-1850

Information and empire : mechanisms of communication in Russia, 1600-1850 /

"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 Empire brings together a r...

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Other Authors: Franklin, Simon (Editor), Bowers, Katherine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2017]
Subjects:
Communication > Russia > History.
Written communication > Russia > History.
Press > Russia > History.
Communication in politics > Russia > History.
Postal service > Russia > History.
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Social and cultural history.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Communication
Communication in politics
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Postal service
Press
Written communication
Russia > Politics and government > History.
Russia > Social life and customs > History.
Russia
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Simon Franklin
  • I. MAP-MAKING. 1. Early Mapping: The Tsardom in Manuscript / Valerie Kivelson
  • 2. New Technology and the Mapping of Empire: The Adoption of the Astrolabe / Aleksei Golubinskii
  • II. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND POST. 3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News / Daniel C. Waugh and Ingrid Maier
  • 4. How Was Western Europe Informed about Muscovy? The Razin Rebellion in Focus / Ingrid Maier
  • III. NEWS AND POST IN RUSSIA. 5. Communication and Obligation: The Postal System of the Russian Empire, 1700-1850 / John Randolph
  • 6. Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca. 1700-1850 / Alison K. Smith
  • 7. What Was News and How Was It Communicated in Pre-Modern Russia? / Daniel C. Waugh
  • IV. INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNICATION. 8. Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery / Clare Griffin
  • 9. What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth Century / Elena Korchmina
  • 10. Communication and Official Enlightenment: The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education, 1834-1855 / Ekaterina Basargina
  • V. INFORMATION AND PUBLIC DISPLAY. 11. Information in Plain Sight: The Formation of the Public Graphosphere / Simon Franklin
  • 12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt / Katherine Bowers
  • Selected Further Reading
  • List of Figures
  • Index.

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