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100 1 _aFranklin, Simon
245 1 0 _aInformation and Empire :
_bMechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 /
_cSimon Franklin, Katherine Bowers.
260 _aCambridge :
_bOpen Book Publishers,
_c2018.
300 _avi + 438 p.
500 _aEbook
520 _a From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its people. It also considers the inscription of space from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a fi eld of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and anyone interested in the history of information and communications.
540 _aCC-BY-4.0
_uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
650 4 _aHistory
650 4 _aCommunication
650 4 _acommunication
650 4 _ahistory of communication
650 4 _ainformation
650 4 _amaps and atlases
650 4 _anews circulation
650 4 _apostal service
650 4 _aRussian Empire
650 4 _asigns and monuments
700 1 _aBowers, Katherine
776 _z978-1-78374-373-5
856 4 _eFranklin, Simon
_uhttps://books.openedition.org/obp/4672
_yInformation and Empire
999 _c7768
_d7768