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Travel, science, and empire: The Russian Geographical Society's expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845--1905.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Travel, science, and empire: The Russian Geographical Society's expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845--1905./
Author:	Bailey, Scott C. Matsushita.
Description:	342 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jerry Bentley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3311854
ISBN:	9780549600336

Travel, science, and empire: The Russian Geographical Society's expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845--1905.
Bailey, Scott C. Matsushita.

Travel, science, and empire: The Russian Geographical Society's expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845--1905. - 342 p.

Adviser: Jerry Bentley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2008.

This dissertation examines the employment of ethnographic, geographic, and natural-scientific expeditions by the Russian Geographical Society and the Russian Imperial government during the second half of the nineteenth century. The expeditions and the expeditionary leaders under discussion were sent to the Central Eurasian region for a number of reasons, including the gaining of samopoznanie (self-knowledge) of lands and peoples already under imperial control, but more often to gather information on lands and peoples beyond Russian borders. These expeditions collected samples of flora and fauna, mapped the territory, made ethnographic observations, and provided other information of use for future settlement or colonization. The expeditionary leaders also left research reports about their journeys, which are analyzed and summarized in this dissertation. The individuals who led these expeditions became important instigators of the further eastward colonization of the region by shifting the research focus of the institution beyond Russian Turkestan (during the 1850s and 1860s) to research in China, Tibet, and Eastern Turkestan (from the 1870s until the end of the century). The traveling expeditions and the expeditionary leaders themselves are analyzed comparatively and placed into the wider global and national historical contexts. This work also identifies a shift in the language of these travel accounts as the century progressed, moving from the relatively-benign documentation of flora and fauna during the earlier period to more overtly strategic and even jingoistic reports by the end of the century. The individual identities of scholar-travelers are also investigated, with some analysis of the process of creating the Russian or Russian Geographical Society scholar-traveler.

ISBN: 9780549600336Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Travel, science, and empire: The Russian Geographical Society's expeditions to Central Eurasia, 1845--1905.
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