A World of Empires

The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada

Edyta M. Bojanowska

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674976405

Publication Date: 04/16/2018

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373 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

22 halftones, 3 maps

Belknap Press

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Note on Primary Sources, Transliteration, Ethnonyms, and Place Names
Map 1. Goncharov’s Travels in 1852–1855. The travelogue breaks off when Goncharov arrives in Irkutsk, Siberia. He later journeyed to St. Petersburg, stopping over in his hometown of Simbirsk.
Introduction
1. From London to Cape Town, or How to Run a Successful Empire
2. Pineapples in Petersburg, Cabbage Soup on the Equator
3. Prying Open Japan, Prospecting Korea
4. Eastward Ho!
5. Russians Confront Human Diversity
6. The Bestseller and Its Afterlife
Appendix
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2019 AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Scholarship, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages

Co-Winner, 2019 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

Honorable Mention, 2019 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Honorable Mention, 2019 Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies

Shortlist, 2019 Longman–History Today Book Prize, Pearson Longman Publishing and History Today Magazine

A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year, 2018

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