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A world of empires, the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada, Edyta M. Bojanowska

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A world of empires, the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada, Edyta M. Bojanowska

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A world of empires

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1002823698

Responsibility statement

Edyta M. Bojanowska

Sub title

the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada

Summary

Novelist Ivan Goncharov was secretary to the naval commander of an 1852 secret mission to open trade relations with Japan. Bojanowska uses Goncharov's gripping travelogue [past Cape Colony (South Africa), Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong , Shanghai, Siberia]---a bestseller (1858) 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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

From London to Cape Town, or how to run a successful empire -- Pineapples in Petersburg, cabbage soup on the Equator -- Prying open Japan, prospecting Korea -- Eastward ho! -- Russians confront human diversity -- The bestseller and its afterlife

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Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada

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