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050 00 $aD34.R9$bP64 2000
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100 1 $aPoe, Marshall.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96007221
245 13 $a"A people born to slavery" :$bRussia in early modern European ethnography, 1476-1748 /$cMarshall T. Poe.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c2000.
300 $axi, 293 pages :$billustrations, facsimiles, map ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies of the Harriman Institute
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-281) and index.
520 1 $a"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?".
520 8 $a"In the first book devoted to answering these questions, Marshall T. Poe traces the root of today's perception of Russia and its people to the eyewitness descriptions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travelers.
520 8 $aHis fascinating account - the most complete review of early modern European writings about Russia ever undertaken - explores how the image of "Russian tyranny" took hold in the popular imagination and eventually became the basis for the notion of "Oriental Despotism" first set forth by Montesquieu.".
520 8 $a"Poe, the preeminent scholar of these valuable primary sources, carefully assesses their reliability. He argues convincingly that although the foreigners exaggerated the degree of Russian "slavery," they accurately described their encounters and correctly concluded that the political culture of Muscovite autocracy was unlike that of European kingship. With his findings, Poe challenges the notion that all Europeans projected their own fantasies onto Russia.
520 8 $aInstead, his evidence suggests that many early travelers produced, in essence, reliable ethnographies, not works of exotic "Orientalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aRussia$xForeign public opinion, European.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zEurope.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110218
651 0 $aRussia$xRelations$zEurope.
651 0 $aEurope$xRelations$zRussia.
830 0 $aStudies of the Harriman Institute.
852 00 $bglx$hD34.R9$iP64 2000