Borderlands Orientalism or How the Savage Lost his Nobility : The Russian Perception of the Caucasus between 1817 and 1878

ISBN-13: 9783643507884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 316 str.

Dominik Gutmeyr

Opis

In Russia's cultural memory, the Caucasus is a potent point of reference, to which many emotions, images, and stereotypes are attached. The book gives a new reading of the development of Russia's perception of its borderlands and presents a complex picture of the encounter between the Russians and the indigenous population of the Caucasus. The study outlines the history of a region standing in between Russian reveries and Russian imperialism. (Series: Studies on South East Europe, Vol. 19) Subject: History, Russian Studies, Ethnology]

O autorze

Dominik Gutmeyr is historian at the Department for Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz, Austria.