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Author Pravilova, E. A. (Ekaterina Anatolevna), author.

Title A public empire : property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia / Ekaterina Pravilova.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Whose nature? Environmentalism, industrialization, and the politics of property -- The meanings of property -- Forests, minerals, and the controversy over property in post-emancipation Russia -- Nationalizing rivers, expropriating lands -- The treasures of the fatherland -- Inventing national patrimony -- Private possessions and national art -- "Estates on Parnassus": literary property and cultural reform -- Writers and the audience: legal provisions and public discourse -- The private letters of national literature.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Public domain -- Russia -- History.
Right of property -- Russia -- History.
Government ownership -- Russia -- History.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pravilova, E. A. Public empire : property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014] 9780691159058 (DLC)10846131
ISBN 9780691159058 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781400850266 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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