TY - BOOK ID - 104764446 TI - Information and empire : mechanisms of communication in Russia, 1600-1850 AU - Franklin, Simon AU - Bowers, Katherine AU - Open Book Publishers PY - 2017 SN - 9781783743759 9781783743766 1783743751 178374376X 9781783743773 1783743778 9781783744527 1783744529 9781783743742 9781783743735 1783743743 1783743735 9791036509681 PB - Open Book Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Communication KW - Written communication KW - Press KW - Communication in politics KW - Postal service KW - Communication. KW - Communication in politics. KW - Manners and customs. KW - Politics and government. KW - Postal service. KW - Press. KW - Written communication. KW - History. KW - Russia KW - Russia. KW - Social life and customs KW - Political communication KW - Political science KW - Written discourse KW - Written language KW - Discourse analysis KW - Language and languages KW - Visual communication KW - Media, News KW - Media, The KW - News media KW - Journalism KW - Publicity KW - Newspapers KW - Periodicals KW - Mail KW - Mail service KW - Post-office KW - Carriers KW - Communication and traffic KW - Transportation KW - Ceremonies KW - Customs, Social KW - Folkways KW - Social customs KW - Traditions KW - Usages KW - Civilization KW - Ethnology KW - Etiquette KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - 1917 KW - Rosja KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russian Empire KW - Russie KW - Russland KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - postal service KW - information KW - maps and atlases KW - communication KW - news circulation KW - signs and monuments KW - history of communication UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:104764446 AB - From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its people. It also considers the inscription of space from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a fi eld of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and anyone interested in the history of information and communications. ER -