How St. Petersburg learned to study itself : the Russian idea of kraevedenie / Emily D. Johnson.

Author/creator Johnson, Emily D., 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxiii, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Local history--Study and teaching. --Russia (Federation). --Saint Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--History. --Study and teaching. --History.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Historiography. --History.
Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Civilization.

Portion of title How Saint Petersburg learned to study itself
SeriesStudies of the Harriman Institute
Studies of the Harriman Institute. ^A225209
Contents Introduction : Ways of knowing--Russian local studies as an identity discipline -- The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century tradition -- The art journals of the Silver Age, St. Petersburg preservationism, and the guidebook -- Old Petersburg after the Revolution -- The excursion movement and excursion methodology -- Excursion primers and literary tours -- Kraevedenie in St. Petersburg -- Literary kraevedenie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-287) and index.
LCCN 2005037526
ISBN0271028726 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN9780271028729