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Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2002.
0719050170 (hc.)
Women writing about women. Introduction -- Domestic manners of the Americans (1832) / Turkish embassy letters (1718) / Narrative of a journey overland to India (1830) / Eastern life, present and past (1848) / Constantinople during the Crimean War (1863) / The governess in Egypt (1865) / Letters from Egypt (1875) / Domestic manners of the Americans (1832) / Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838) / Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation (1863) / My life in Sarawak (1913) / Women and knowledge. Introduction -- First impressions on a tour upon the continent in the summer of 1818 (1819) / Journal (1835) ; Records of a girlhood (1878) / Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838) / Notes and sketches of New South Wales / Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) / The backwoods of Canada (1846) / Impressions of Rome, Florence and Turin (1862) / Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838) / Some further recollections of a happy life (1892) / Narrative of a journey overland to India (1830) / Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (1856) / A thousand miles up the Nile (1888) / Some further recollections of a happy life (1892) / Notes and sketches of New South Wales (1844) / Roughing it in the bush (1852) / Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (1856) / Paris and the Parisians (1836) / The Englishwoman in Russia (1870) / Station life in New Zealand (1870) / An Australian parsonage (1872) / Impression of a tenderfoot (1890) / Women and space. Introduction. The illustrated journeys of Celia Fiennes (1698) / A short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) / Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt and Italy (1852) / A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) / The passionate nomad (1902) / North-west by north (1935) / Baghdad sketches (1937) / The Gobi Desert (1942) / Full tilt (1965) / Tracks (Australia) (1982) / Adventure and gender. Narrative of two voyages to the River Sierra Leone (1791) / Peregrinations of a pariah (1833-4) / "The Donner party letters" (1846) / Unprotected females in Norway (1857) / With the Tibetans in tent and temple (1901) / My life in Sarawak (1913) / My journey to Lhasa (1927) / "Through a barren land" (1996) / Terra incognita : travels in Antarctica (1997) /
Welcome to Moscow -- Geography and Culture -- The Origins of Russia -- The Cold North -- Distance and Isolation -- Communalism -- Nationality -- Religion -- Culture and Character -- Egalitarianism -- Caution and Conservatism -- Pessimism -- Extremes and Contradictions -- The Russian Soul -- Big Is Beautiful -- Women--The Stronger Sex -- Messianism -- Rebellion and Revolt -- Westernizers and Slavophiles -- State and Society -- The Russian Heritage -- Statism -- The Bureaucracy -- Crime and Corruption -- The Mafia -- The KGB -- The Law -- Order and Disorder -- School Days, Rule Days -- Personal Encounters -- The City -- Friends and Familiar Faces -- At Home -- The Toast -- Alcohol, the Other "Ism" -- Vranyo, the Russian Fib -- Nyekulturno -- Time and Patience -- The Russian Language -- Misunderstandings -- Communication Differences -- The Telephone -- Russians and Americans -- Negotiating with Russians -- The Art of Negotiation -- Procedures and Tactics -- The Endgame -- The Paperwork -- Verification -- Expect the Unexpected -- Seeing the Real Russia -- Whither Russia?
Why consider opposing viewpoints? -- Introduction -- What is Russia's role in international politics? -- Chapter preface -- Russia is the world's next energy superpower / Russia is not the world's next energy superpower / United States should view Russia as a strategic partner / United States should not view Russia as a strategic partner / Russia's influence in the Middle East is growing / Russia's global influence is shrinking / Russia's unsafe nuclear stockpile is a threat to global stability / Russia has made some progress in securing its nuclear stockpile / Periodical bibliography -- Is Russia moving toward democracy? -- Chapter preface -- Russia is moving toward democracy / Russia is moving away from democracy / Russia is becoming a dictatorship / Russia is not becoming a democracy or a dictatorship / Kremlin respects Russians' civil rights / Kremlin assassinates its critics / Russia is fighting terrorism undemocratically and unsuccessfully / Periodical bibliography --
What is Russia's role in international politics? -- Russia is the world's next energy superpower / Russia is not the world's next energy superpower / The United States should view Russia as a strategic partner / The United States should not view Russia as a strategic partner / Russia's influence in the Middle East is growing / Russia's global influence is shrinking / Russia's unsafe nuclear stockpile is a threat to global stability / Russia has made some progress in securing its nuclear stockpile / Is Russia moving toward democracy? -- Russia is moving toward democracy / Russia is moving away from democracy / Russia is becoming a dictatorship / Russia is not becoming a democracy or a dictatorship / The Kremlin respects Russians' civil rights / The Kremlin assassinates its critics / Russia is fighting terrorism undemocratically and unsuccessfully / How is Western culture influencing Russia? -- Western consumer goods are improving Russians' standard of living / Western-style consumer credit is driving Russians into debt / Russians embrace Western pop culture / Russians embrace patriotic homegrown culture / Westerners want to work and live in Russia / Russians and migrant workers want to leave Russia to work and live in the West / What is Russia's greatest challenge? -- Russia is facing population decline / Environmental pollution is a major problem in Russia / Russia's reliance on oil exports may lead to its downfall / Russia's relationship with the Middle East is perilous / The gap between rich and poor is undermining Russian society /
A silver dish / An exile in the east / Home and native land / A short walk into afternoon / Shadrach / The wedding week / A party in Miami Beach / The quail / Some Manhattan in New England / Plaisir d'amour / Falling off the scaffold / Spelling / Seasons / Living alone / The middle place / The quarterback speaks to his god / Trip in a summer dress / The eye / Paper covers rock / The missing person / Finisterre / A lingering death / Home is the hero / The new music / Something that happened /
The man who loved a double bass -- A very, very great lady and her son at home -- A Victorian fable (with glossary) -- A souvenir of Japan -- The executioner's beautiful daughter -- The loves of Lady Purple -- The smile of winter -- Penetrating to the heart of the forest -- Flesh and the mirror -- Master -- Reflections -- Elegy for a freelance -- The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the house of love -- The werewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice -- Black Venus -- The kiss -- Our lady of the massacre -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe -- Overture and incidental music for A midsummer night's dream -- Peter and the wolf -- The kitchen child -- The Fall River axe murders -- Lizzie's tiger -- John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore -- Gun for the devil -- The merchant of shadows -- The ghost ships -- In Pantoland -- Ashputtle or The mother's ghost -- Alice in Prague or The curious room -- Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene -- The scarlet house -- The snow pavilion -- The quilt maker.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1991]
0691031533 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
The problem of the middle in late imperial Russian society / The terms of Russian social history / The twilit middle class of nineteenth-century Russia / The Riabushinsky circle : Burzhuaziia and Obshchestvennost' in late imperial Russia / The search for a Russian Orthodox work ethic / Impediments to a borgeois consciousness in Russia, 1880-1905 : the estate structure, ethnic diversity, and economic regionalism / Pavel Tretiakov and merchant art patronage, 1850-1900 / The Moscow art market / Voluntary associations, civic culture and Obshchestvennost' in Moscow / Ideology, identity and the emergence of a middle class / The Zemstvo and the development of a Russian middle class / The problem of professions in imperial Russia / Cultural pioneers and professionals : the teacher in society / "Going to the intelligentsia" : the church and its urban mission in post-reform Russia / V.M. Doroshevich : the newspaper journalist and the development of public opinion in civil society / The lower middle class strata in revolutionary Russia / Social discourse in the Moscow Art Theater / Redefining the intellectual's role : Maksim Gorky and the Streda Circle / Building for the bourgeoisie : the quest for a modern style in Russian architecture / A place for us : Embourgeoisement and the art of Konstantin Korovin / The sedimentary society / Russia's unrealized civil society /
Abercairney House / Andrew and his Cuttie gun -- The Ardrossan Canal / Athole Brose (Niel Gow's favorite) -- The auld man's mare's dead / Auld springs (tunes) gees nae price -- Auld wife ayond the fire -- Ball na Grandach (Miss Lucia Campbell) -- Beggar's meal poke's / Birnam Wood / Blue ribbon Scottish measure -- Bonnie Charlie -- Bonny Highland hills -- The bonny Highland laddie (Cairney Mount) -- Bridge of Balater (Mr. Fletcher's delight) / The Caledonian hunt / Caper Fey -- Captain Elphinston -- Captain Fletcher's favorite / Cauld kail in Aberdeen -- Cheap mutton / Coilsfield House / Colonel Byng's favorite / Colonel Campbell (of Monzie's favorite) -- Colonel Montgomery -- Compliments to George Grant / Compliments to W.K. Jenkins / Countess of Cassilli / Countless [Countess] of Dalkeith -- The Countess of Eglinton -- Countess of Selkirk's favorite / Coutie's wedding -- David Stewart / Doctor Haydn / The drunken wives of Fochabers -- The Duchess of Athole / Duchess of Buccleugh / Duchess of Buccleugh's favorite / Duchess of Gordon -- Duchess of Hamilton / Duke of Argyle The Duke of Athole's delight / Duke of Gordon / Dumfries Races -- Duncan Davidson / Dunira Lodge / Earl of Eglinton / Earl of Elgin / Earl of Elgin's favorite / The Earl of Hadinton Earl of Homes / The Earl of Loudoun / Earl of Eglinton -- The ewe wi' the crooked horn -- The fallen hero / Farewell to whiskey / Fingal's Cave / The fir tree -- The fyket -- Garscobe House / General Wemyss / George Baillie / George Grant / George Stewart of Grantleys -- Gillie Callam Da Pheithein with variations -- Gin a body meet a body -- He's aye kissing me -- He's dear to me tho' he's far frae me -- Hie over hunt / The Highland chieftain / The Highland president / Highlanders farewell to Ireland -- Hilton Lodge / Honest Duncan -- Isle of Sky -- James Jenkin's favorite / John Lesslie Melville / Kelvarock Lady Amelia Murray / Lady Ann Hope -- Lady Ann Hope's favorite / Lady Ashburton / Lady Carmichael of Castle Craig / Lady Caroline Montague / Lady Catherine Stewart -- Lady Charlotte Campbell's strathspey / Lady Charlotte Durham / Lady Charlotte Durham (no. 2) / Lady Charlotte Primrose / Lady Downe / Lady Elibank's favorite -- Lady Elizabeth Lindsay / Lady Flora Charlotte Hasting / Lady Gray / Lady Hamilton Dalrymple -- Lady Jean Montgomrie / Lady Jeminia Johnston -- Lady Lucy Ramsay / Lady Madelina Sinclair -- Lady Mary Hay's Scotch measure / Lady Mary Murray / Lady Mary Primrose's favorite -- Lady Muir McKenzie's favorite / Lady Shaftsbury / Lady Viscountess Duncan -- Lament for Mrs. Oswald of Auchincruive / Lament for Niel Gow / Lament for the death of his brother / Lamentations for James Moray of Abercarney / Lassie I'll come near yow -- Lawer's house / The lees of Luncartie (When you go to the hill take your gun) -- Link him dodie -- London Highland Society / Lord Aboyne -- Lord Balgonie's favorite Lord Ballenden / Lord Blantyre (Tullynet Hall) / Lord Charles Murray / Lord Duncan's flag / Lord John Campbell -- Lord McDonald / Lord Montgomrie / Lord Ramsay / Lord Spencer Chichester /
