Imperial Visions

Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840 1865

By: Mark Bassin, Alan R. H. Baker (Editor), Richard Dennis (Editor)

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Although this remote realm was a virtual terra incognita for the Russian educated public, the acquisition of an 'Asian Mississippi' attracted great attention nonetheless, even stirring the dreams of Russia's most outstanding visionaries. Within a decade of its acquisition, however, the dreams were gone and the Amur region largely abandoned and forgotten. In an innovative examination of Russia's perceptions of the new territories in the Far East, Mark Bassin sets the Amur enigma squarely in the context of the Zeitgeist in Russia at the time. Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalite of imperial Russia. This 1999 work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism, geographical identity and imperial expansion.

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'Mark Bassin's Imperial Visions is a work that will be appreciated by specialists in a wide array of disciplines. This is a masterful, groundbreaking book that combines intellectual history and geography in a way that has not been done before, shining a new light on the issues of Russian identity and the interrelationship between exploration, conquest and nationalism.' H-Net '... a solid work of scholarship ... a detailed study for the specialist reader, and a definitive work on a generally neglected aspect of nineteenth-century empire-building which may prove one day to be of great geopolitical importance.' Asian Affairs

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Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
	p. 18
Early Visions and Divinations	p. 19
National Identity and World Mission	p. 37
The Rediscovery of the Amur	p. 69
The Push to the Pacific	p. 102
	p. 138
Introduction	p. 139
Dreams of a Siberian Mississippi	p. 143
Civilizing a Savage Realm	p. 174
Poised on the Manchurian Frontier	p. 206
The Amur and Its Discontents	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 322
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