Name: A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (en Inglés)
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Author: Edyta M. Bojanowska
ISBN: 9780674976405

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A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Autor

Edyta M. Bojanowska

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

360

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780674976405

Categorías

Rusia
Urss, unión soviética
Historia de otras zonas y regiones geográficas

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (en Inglés)

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A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearMany people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a book, The Frigate Pallada, which became a bestseller in imperial Russia. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s fascinating travelogue as a window onto global imperial history in the mid-nineteenth century.Reflecting on encounters in southern Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, Goncharov offers keen observations on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Britain’s global ascendancy leaves him in equal measures awed and resentful. In Southeast Asia, he recognizes an increasingly interlocking world in the vibrant trading hubs whose networks encircle the globe. Traveling overland back home, Goncharov presents Russia’s colonizing rule in Siberia as a positive imperial model, contrasted with Western ones.Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage among its American and European rivals and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action, in which Bojanowska finds both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them.