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Author/Creator:Hokanson, Katya.
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Title:A Woman's Empire [electronic resource] : Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia.
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ISBN:9781487545611
1487545614
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Published/Created:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
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Physical Description:1 online resource ( 355 p.)
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Links:Online book
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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Variant and related titles:De Gruyter University Press eBook 2022.
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Other formats:Print version: Hokanson, Katya A Woman's Empire Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2022
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Contents: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
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Subjects:Women--Travel--Asia, Central--History--19th century.
Imperialism and science--Asia, Central--History--19th century.
Imperialism and science--Russia--History--19th century.
Russia--Territorial expansion--History--19th century.
Asia, Central--Colonization--History--19th century.
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Also listed under:Walter de Gruyter & Co. University of Toronto Press Complete 2022.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17130878