A Woman's Empire : Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia.
Hokanson, Katya.
A Woman's Empire : Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia. - 1st ed. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022. ©2022. - 1 online resource (355 pages)
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Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents -- 1 Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor-General's Wife -- 2 Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva's Central Asian Sketches -- Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game -- 3 Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India -- 4 Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs -- Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers -- 5 In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol'ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskov'ia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
A Woman's Empiresheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
9781487545611
1865-1900
Frau
Imperialismus
Theosophie
Expedition
Russland
Mittelasien
Russia-Civilization-1801-1917. Women-Russia-History.
Fernzugriff
A Woman's Empire : Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia. - 1st ed. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022. ©2022. - 1 online resource (355 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents -- 1 Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor-General's Wife -- 2 Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva's Central Asian Sketches -- Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game -- 3 Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India -- 4 Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs -- Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers -- 5 In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol'ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskov'ia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
A Woman's Empiresheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.
9781487545611
1865-1900
Frau
Imperialismus
Theosophie
Expedition
Russland
Mittelasien
Russia-Civilization-1801-1917. Women-Russia-History.
Fernzugriff