عنوان

Russia and Iran in the Great Game

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IR

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994943

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Country of publication

IR

Title Proper

Russia and Iran in the Great Game

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

:Travelogues and Orientalism

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Elena Andreeva

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Routledge

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 273 p.

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:ill

Series Title

(Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

Volume Designation

; 8)

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Print

Text of Note

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Index

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1. Setting the stage - 2. Orientalism Russian style - The concept of Orientalism : Western European version - Russian national identity and Russian Orientalism - 3. Overview of the Russian travelogues and their authors - Pre-nineteenth Century Russian travelogues about Iran - The main features of the Russian travelogues about Iran in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries - The authors of the travelogues - 4. The travelers' missions in Iran - Russian military aims and activities in Iran - Russian diplomacy in Iran - Russian emigrants in Iran - Russian trade in Iran - 5. The travelers' self-representation vis-aa-vis the Oriental "other" and the British "self" - 6. The "travelees" : representation of Iran and her people by the Russian travelers - "Power of the gaze" - The "travelees" : manners and morals - 7. The "travelees" : education, culture and society - The Iranian army - Lack of education - Iranian medicine -- Iranian arts and architecture - Iran as "a country of ruins" - 8. Islam as perceived by the Russian travelers - Mullahs, dervishes and sayyeds - Shii and Sunni Muslims - Iranians and "infidels" - Muslim customs and rituals - 9. Gender and ethnicity - Iranian women and prosaic harems - The travelers' religious and ethnic preferences - 10. Travelers and travelees : Russians through Iranian eyes as imagined by the travelers (discourse with themselves) - 'Anti-Romanticism' - Conclusion - Appendix : Iran before World War I - Appendix : travelogues

Iran - Description and travel

Travelers' writings, Russian -- History and criticism

Iran -- History -- Qajars, 1779 - 1925

Russians -- Travel -- Iran

Travel writing - History

ایران -- سیر و سیاحت

سفرنامه‌های روسی -- تاریخ و نقد

.ایران -- تاریخ -- قاجاریان، ۱۳۴۴-۱۱۹۳ ق

روس ها -- ایران -- سفرها

سفرنامه‌نویسی -- تاریخ

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Book number

Andreeva, Elena, 1963-

Country

ایران

Agency

Library of Foreign Languages and Islamic resource

Access number

41

Electronic name

41.pdf

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