A People Born to Slavery" : : Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476-1748 /

A People Born to Slavery" : : Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography, 1476-1748 / / Marshall T. Poe.

Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it? In the first book...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Poe, Marshall T.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Studies in the Humanities
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 13 charts, 16 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION. The History of "Russian Tyranny"
  • CHAPTER 1. TERRA INCOGNITA
  • CHAPTER 2. LEGATUS AD MOSCOVIAM
  • CHAPTER 3. NECESSARIUM MALUM
  • CHAPTER 4. RERUM MOSCOVITICARUM
  • CHAPTER 5. TYRANNIS SINE TYRANNO
  • CHAPTER 6. SIMPLEX DOMINATUS
  • CHAPTER 7. WAS MUSCOVY A DESPOTISM?
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY 1
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY 2
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY 3
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY 4
  • Index

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