The history and politics of civilisation : the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
During the second half of the 18th century, a debate about Russia developed in France and Germany. Spurred on by a preoccupation with Peter I’s project to swiftly civilise his country through Europeanisation, and by the evolving idea of a philosophic history with its concern to explain the historica...
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Queen Mary, University of London
2010
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.511805 |