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Author Wolff, Larry.

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

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Description xiv, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-406) and index
Notes English
Subject Enlightenment -- Europe, Eastern.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045767 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474
Europe, Eastern -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001622
Author American Council of Learned Societies.
LC no. 93032774
ISBN 0804723141 (alk. paper)
0804727023 (paperback)
ABBREV TI INVENTING EASTERN EUROPE
OTHER TI ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012023082