Deconstructions Of The Russian Empire In Western Travel Literature

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527561291
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature written by Dimitrios Kassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.

Author : Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527577058
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dystopian Depictions of Serbia in British Travel Literature written by Dimitrios Kassis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without any doubt, one of the European regions that has never ceased to trouble the Westerner traveller is the Balkan Peninsula, which functioned as a terra incognita within the British travel canon, and served as the transit point to the Ottoman Empire or the Old Grecian world. At a time when Anglo-Saxonism occupied a prevalent position in British political discourse, the Balkan Peninsula came to epitomise all the negative qualities of the Orient that British travellers were anxious to apply to alien countries that were far removed from the nation-building agenda of the Empire. As such, classified as the fringe of the Orient, Serbia was persistently depicted as a politically unstable region, inhabited by primitive ethnic groups that could possibly threaten the viability of the British imperialist interests in European Turkey. In the light of the Serbian national struggle to promote the idea of a South-Slavic Union or forge an identity against the Austrian and Ottoman Empires, some British travellers undertook a journey to all the Balkan states where Serbians formed the majority of the population to demonise the War of Liberation of the Balkan states against the Ottoman yoke, treating it as visible evidence of Russian Expansionism. This book concentrates on dystopian British imagology of Serbia as a travel destination, including travel accounts produced from 1717 until 1911, a year prior to the outbreak of the First World War. The travel texts incorporated into this volume shed light on all the conceptualisations of the Balkans, addressing the sociopolitical conditions that sparked the national awakening of Serbia.

Author : Robert Sears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 695 pages
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Download or read book An Illustrated Description of the Russian Empire written by Robert Sears and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire written by Robert Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Tooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
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Download or read book View of the Russian Empire written by William Tooke and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Geddie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364269893
Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book The Russian Empire written by John Geddie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Russian Empire: Historical and Descriptive F there is a country that bears its history impressed on its surface and on the char acter of its people, that country is Russia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Peter Simon Pallas
Publisher : London : Printed for J. Stockdale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794 written by Peter Simon Pallas and published by London : Printed for J. Stockdale. This book was released on 1812 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333880545
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland written by Robert Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland: Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic River Neva - Divisions of the City - Police - Carriages - Baths -environs-climate-coins, Commerce, 850. 138vi contents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230304021
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland written by Robert Johnston and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. If ire inquire into the history of European nations, even as far back as Charlemagne, never shall we find, perhaps, an;na of more universal interest than the present, both to those nations in general, and to Great Britain in particular. The constitution of governments, like the constitution of man, must have its periods of vigour, and decline; it must rise and fall, flourish and decay; and, although it abound in physical, it may fail in moral strength, and thus perish. From this failure in the moral constitution of their government?, more than from any other source, has flowed that vast and mighty stream of desolation, which, like a torrent, swept along the face of modern nations and nearly overwhelmed them in its gloomy tide; from this has the reeent map of Europe presented so melancholy and so degenerate a picture. The iniquities of civilized man and the corruption of Courts had opened a wide and yawning abyss; nations were on the brink; the light of life and liberty had fled; the storm" was gathering; the angry eye of Heaven looked down, formed a being for the ncourge of nan, airf sent him abroad to desolate the land. What scene then did the continental mnp of Europe present? Its nations chained, as if by one common spell of thraldom; their governments, their laws, their religion trampled on; the ties of society torn asunder; the rights of thrones trodden down; their Kings degraded, and upstart vassals polluting, with their vile touch, the sacred sceptres of royalty. No longer did the age of chivalry throw its light around; that of blood, rapine, and desolation was at its zenith. a long and dreary night of Vandalism overshadowed the earth: the only light it shed was caught from the burning pile where nations lay...

Author : Robert Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780461216509
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic written by Robert Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!