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Inventing Eastern Europe : the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment

Title
Inventing Eastern Europe : the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment / Larry Wolff.
Author
Wolff, Larry.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

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Description
xiv, 419 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Entering Eastern Europe: Eighteenth-Century Travelers on the Frontier -- 2. Possessing Eastern Europe: Sexuality, Slavery, and Corporal Punishment -- 3. Imagining Eastern Europe: Fiction, Fantasy, and Vicarious Voyages -- 4. Mapping Eastern Europe: Political Geography and Cultural Cartography -- 5. Addressing Eastern Europe, Part I: Voltaire's Russia -- 6. Addressing Eastern Europe, Part II: Rousseau's Poland -- 7. Peopling Eastern Europe, Part I: Barbarians in Ancient History and Modern Anthropology -- 8. Peopling Eastern Europe, Part II: The Evidence of Manners and the Measurements of Race.
ISBN
  • 0804723141 (alk. paper) :
  • 0804727023 (pbk.)
LCCN
93032774
OCLC
  • 29219970
  • ocm29219970
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries