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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782740703321

Autore

Gentes A

Titolo

Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822 [[electronic resource] /] / by A. Gentes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008

ISBN

1-281-97621-0

9786611976217

0-230-58389-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2008.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

364.6/8

947

Soggetti

Russia—History

Europe, Eastern—History

World politics

Criminology

Europe—History

Europe—History—1492-

History, Modern

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

Political History

Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

European History

History of Early Modern Europe

Modern History

Russia Social conditions To 1801

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-252) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary and Abbreviations; Map of Siberia; Introduction: The Universal Experience of Exile; 1 'To where the Sovereign Chooses...'; 2 'Exile to the Service in which he will be Useful'; 3 'Punishment for Insignificant Crimes'; 4 'Whoever's not with us is Against us'; 5 'Only Ermak can Compete with



Me'; Conclusion: 'Siberian Exile and Biopolitics'; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development.