An Historico Geographical Description Of The North And Eastern Parts Of Europe And Asia But More Particularly Of Russia Siberia And Great Tartary Both In Their Ancient And Modern State Together With An Entire New Polygot Table Of The Dialects Of 32 Tartarian Nations And A Vocabulary Of The Kalmuck Mungalian Tongue As Also A Large And Accurate Map Of Those Countries And Variety Of Cuts Representing Asiatick Scythian Antiquities Written Originally In High German Now Faithfully Translated Into English
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An Historico-geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia;
| Author | : Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 1738 |
| Genre | : Asia, Central |
| ISBN | : |
In the Land of the Romanovs
| Author | : Anthony Cross |
| Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2014-04-27 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1783740574 |
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
The Merchants of Siberia
| Author | : Erika Monahan |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2016-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 150170396X |
In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the careers of merchants who traded there. She follows the histories of three merchant families from various social ranks who conducted trade in Siberia for well over a century. These include the Filat'evs, who were among Russia’s most illustrious merchant elite; the Shababins, Muslim immigrants who mastered local and long-distance trade while balancing private endeavors with service to the Russian state; and the Noritsyns, traders of more modest status who worked sometimes for themselves, sometimes for bigger merchants, and participated in the emerging Russia-China trade. Monahan demonstrates that trade was a key component of how the Muscovite state sought to assert its authority in the Siberian periphery. The state’s recognition of the benefits of commerce meant that Russian state- and empire-building in Siberia were characterized by accommodation; in this diverse borderland, instrumentality trumped ideology and the Orthodox state welcomed Central Asian merchants of Islamic faith. This reconsideration of Siberian trade invites us to rethink Russia’s place in the early modern world. The burgeoning market at Lake Yamysh, an inner-Eurasian trading post along the Irtysh River, illuminates a vibrant seventeenth-century Eurasian caravan trade even as Europe-Asia maritime trade increased. By contextualizing merchants and places of Siberian trade in the increasingly connected economies of the early modern period, Monahan argues that, commercially speaking, Russia was not the "outlier" that most twentieth-century characterizations portrayed.
The Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr
| Author | : Roderick Dale |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2021-12-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429647727 |
The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval perceptions of berserkir and builds a model of how the medieval audience would have viewed them. Then, it extrapolates a Viking Age model of berserkir from this model, and supports the analysis with anthropological and archaeological evidence, to create a new and more accurate paradigm of the Viking Age berserkr and his place in society. This shows that berserkir were the champions of lords and kings, members of the social elite, and that much of what is believed about them is based on 17th-century and later scholarship and mythologizing: the medieval audience would have had a very different understanding of the Old Norse berserkr from that which people have now. The book sets out a challenge to rethink and reframe our perceptions of the past in a way that is less influenced by our own modern ideas. The Myths and Realities of the Viking berserkr will appeal to researchers and students alike studying the Viking Age, Medieval History and Old Norse Literature.
Before Boas
| Author | : Han F. Vermeulen |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 746 |
| Release | : 2015-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 080325542X |
"An extensive study of the emergence of ethnology and ethnography, and how theories in Europe and Russia during the eighteenth century experienced a paradigm shift with the work of Franz Boas starting in 1886"--
Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration, 2d ed.
| Author | : David Goudsward |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2023-10-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1476690731 |
In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation. From Maine to Massachusetts, this work examines various unexplained historical remains in New England, exploring not only the layout and dimensions of such sites--some reminiscent of Stonehenge with their huge stones, astronomical alignments and undiscovered purposes--but also the history and possible explanations for their existence. Theories regarding Norse, Phoenician, Irish, Celtic and Native American origins are presented here in an impartial and logical manner. Sites discussed include Dighton Rock in Berkley, Massachusetts; Newport Tower in Newport, Rhode Island; the Bellows Falls Petroglyphs in Bellows Falls, Vermont; and Mystery Hill in North Salem, New Hampshire (also known as America's Stonehenge), with expanded coverage new to this edition. An appendix provides information regarding sites open to the public.
