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A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada

English

By (author): Edyta M. Bojanowska

A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year

Many people are familiar with American Commodore Matthew Perrys expedition to open trade relations with Japan in the early 1850s. Less well known is that on the heels of the Perry squadron followed a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission. Serving as secretary to the naval commander was novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a book, The Frigate Pallada, which became a bestseller in imperial Russia. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharovs fascinating travelogue as a window onto global imperial history in the mid-nineteenth century.

Reflecting on encounters in southern Africas Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, Goncharov offers keen observations on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Britains global ascendancy leaves him in equal measures awed and resentful. In Southeast Asia, he recognizes an increasingly interlocking world in the vibrant trading hubs whose networks encircle the globe. Traveling overland back home, Goncharov presents Russias colonizing rule in Siberia as a positive imperial model, contrasted with Western ones.

Slow to be integrated into the standard narrative on European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage among its American and European rivals and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharovs gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action, in which Bojanowska finds both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 235 x 156mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Apr 2018
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674976405

About Edyta M. Bojanowska

Edyta M. Bojanowska is the prizewinning author of A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada and Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism. She is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

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