Spatial Concepts of Lithuania in the Long Nineteenth Century / Darius Staliūnas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Staliūnas, Darius, Editor.

Series:

Lithuanian Studies without Borders

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographical perception--Lithuania--History--19th century.

Geographical perception.

Spatial behavior--Political aspects--Lithuania--History--19th century.

Spatial behavior.

Spatial behavior--Social aspects--Lithuania--History--19th century.

Lithuania--Historical geography.

Lithuania.

Lithuania--Name--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either "competed" in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.). The Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German geo-images of this territory are analyzed in separate chapters of this volume. The spatial and topographical turns, especially the innovative perspective suggested by French Marxist Henri Lefebvre to look at the (social) space as a product of social creativity, research on so-called mental maps, postcolonial studies, and nationalism studies provided some theoretical background as well as analytical approaches for the studies published in this volume.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: Poland or Russia? Lithuania on the Russian Mental Map / Staliūnas, Darius

CHAPTER 2: Images of Lithuania in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Medišauskienė, Zita

CHAPTER 3: The Pre-1914 Creation of Lithuanian "National Territory" / Staliūnas, Darius

CHAPTER 4: "Lithuania-An Extension of Poland": The Territorial Image of Lithuania in the Polish Discourse / Mastianica, Olga / Staliūnas, Darius

CHAPTER 5: Between Ethnographic Belarus and the Reestablishment of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: How Belarusian Nationalism Created Its "National Territory" at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Mastianica, Olga

CHAPTER 6: Lite on the Jewish Mental Maps / Levin, Vladimir / Staliūnas, Darius

CHAPTER 7: Lithuania in the Spatial Concepts of Germans and Prussian Lithuanians / Safronovas, Vasilijus

CHAPTER 8: In Lieu of a Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-533-2

OCLC:

957554877