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Title:
Mapping Europe's borderlands : Russian cartography in the age of empire / Steven Seegel.
Author:
Seegel, Steven, author.
Publication Information:
Chicago, Ill. ; London, U.K. : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]

©2012.
Call Number:
DK18.7 .S44 2012
ISBN:
9780226744254
Physical Description:
xi, 368 pages, 17 color plates : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Contents:
Early modern cartography and power in European Russia and Poland-Lithuania -- Enlightenment to romantic historical claims between imperial Russia and east central Europe -- Purposes of early 19th-century Russian imperial cartography -- Purposes of early 19th-century Polish national cartography -- Mid-19th-century cartography and the idea of progress in Russian empirecraft -- Modern European ethnoschematization and the Vienna-St. Petersburg axis -- Late 19th-century Russian imperial schemes and Habsburg-Polish cartographic borrowings in Galicia -- Borderlands as modern homelands? mapping Ukraine and the grand duchy of Lithuania -- Nationalizing cartography in the borderlands before World War I -- Political cartography in east central Europe during World War I -- Conclusion: purposes of maps in the borderlands of 1919.
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