| Explorations in Muscovite History Contributor(s): Baron, Samuel H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860783022 ISBN-13: 9780860783022 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 947 |
| LCCN: 91026786 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.32 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The main themes of this volume are the explorations and geographical discoveries, and the economic circumstances that lay behind the establishment of commercial relations between Muscovite Russia and Elizabethan England. It also includes four hitherto unpublished studies, together with additional notes to other articles. In the opening pieces Samuel Baron pursues his researches into socio-economic history, with particular reference to the development of commerce and mercantilism in Russia during the 16th-and 17th-centuries. The following section then deals with the discovery of the sea route round the north of Norway, looking on the one hand at the position of seafaring in Russia and the role the Russians themselves may have played in these explorations, for instance in the discovery of Spitsbergen, and on the other at the English quest for a northeastern passage to China. Other articles examine the spread in the West of geographical knowledge about Muscovy, as revealed by the development of cartography, and finally focus on the work of Herberstein and its importance as a stimulus for the English expedition of 1583 that led to the opening of direct Anglo-Russian relations. Les explorations et les d couvertes g ographiques, ainsi que les circonstances conomiques la base de la cr ation des rapports commerciaux entre la Russie moscovite et l'Angleterre lisab thaine forment les th mes principaux de ce volume. Quatre tudes jusqu ici in dites sont aussi inclues, ainsi que des notes suppl mentaires. Samuel Baron d bute cet ouvrage en poursuivant ses recherches sur l'histoire socio- conomique et se r f re en particulier au d veloppement du mercantilisme en Russie durant les 16e et 17e si cles. La section suivante traite de la d couverte de la voie maritime passant au Nord de la Norv ge; y sont examin s d'une part, le r le des Russes quant ces explorations, comme celle, par exemple, qui mena la d couverte de Spitsbergen et, d'autre p |