Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. One. Entering Eastern Europe: Eighteenth-Century Travelers on the Frontier 17
6. Chapter Two. Possessing Eastern Europe: Sexuality, Slavery, and Corporal Punishment 50
7. Chapter Three. Imagining Eastern Europe: Fiction, Fantasy, and Vicarious Voyages 89
8. Chapter Four. Mapping Eastern Europe: Political Geography and Cultural Cartography 144
9. Chapter Five. Addressing Eastern Europe, Part I: Voltaire's Russia 195
10. Chapter Six. Addressing Eastern Europe, Part II: Rousseau's Poland 235
11. Chapter Seven. Peopling Eastern Europe, Part I: Barbarians in Ancient History and Modern Anthropology 284
12. Chapter Eight. Peopling Eastern Europe, Part II: The Evidence of Manners and the Measurements of Race 332
13. Conclusion 356
14. Notes 377
15. Index 407