Format:
1 online resource (444 pages)
Edition:
113th ed.
ISBN:
9781783743759
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Early Mapping: The Tsardom in Manuscript -- 2. New Technology and the Mapping of Empire: The Adoption of the Astrolabe -- 3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign News -- 4. How Was Western Europe Informed about Muscovy? The Razin Rebellion in Focus -- 5. Communication and Obligation: The Postal System of the Russian Empire, 1700-1850 -- 6. Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca.1700-1850 -- 7. What Was News and How Was It Communicated in Pre-Modern Russia? -- 8. Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery -- 9. What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth Century -- 10. Communication and Official Enlightenment: The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education, 1834-1855 -- 11. Information in Plain Sight: The Formation of the Public Graphosphere -- 12. Experiencing Information: An Early Nineteenth-Century Stroll Along Nevskii Prospekt -- Selected Further Reading -- List of Figures -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783743742
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783743742
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
URL:
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