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History through Playing Cards

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title History through Playing Cards
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3N72NM
 
Creator O'Neill, Kelly
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This dataset is sourced from an elegant deck of playing cards created in 1856 to teach members of Russia's elite families about the empire they inhabited. The cards—all 80 of them—provide us with a unique perspective on how the subjects of the tsar “saw” their country on the eve of the emancipation of the serfs.

The resulting data includes hundreds of attributes describing the distribution of economic activities, ethnic groups, geographical features, and historical "particularities."

The data is accompanied by a readme, a file catalog, a codebook, and a glossary.

Spatial units: 3 semi-autonomous regions (polygons); 77 provinces (polygons); 417 towns (points); 180 rivers (lines)
 
Subject Social Sciences
Russian Empire
 
Contributor O'Neill, Kelly
 
Source Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (1856)

Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire (1820-1828)