Catherine Gibson's carefully researched and original book opens new avenues for analysing the history of the Baltic littoral. Timely published in a year when knowledge and understanding about Russia's western borderlands is much needed, it is...a good read for students and will be of great interest to historians of science and cartography, as well as of Central Europe and the Russian Empire.
Catherine Gibson is a historian of modern Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. She is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in 2019. She is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Borders, and Identities and her research has appeared in the journals Past & Present, Journal of
Social History, Journal of History Geography, and Nationalities Papers.