Annotated Bibliography
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Definition:
A list of citations to sources (books, articles, documents, etc.) on a particular topic. Each citation is followed by a brief paragraph that provides a description as well as a critical evaluation (the annotation.) This may include how useful the source was, discussion of the quality of it, the accuracy of it, etc.
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In the Lands of the Romanovs: An Annotated Bibliography of First-hand English-language Accounts of the Russian Empire (1613-1917) by Anthony Cross (open access via JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1814gf0)
*Marshall, Joseph, Travels through Holland, Flanders, Germany,
Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine and Poland, in the years 1768,
1769, and 1770. In which is particularly minuted the present state of those
countries, reflecting their agriculture, population, manufactures, commerce, the
arts, and useful undertakings. London: printed for J. Almon, 1773. 3 vols.
A product of an “armchair” traveller (cf. D19, D58, D60) Full of absurdities,
the work nonetheless has much convincing detail and is often quoted as
an authentic record. Marshall states he was in Russia in 1769-70 and left St
Petersburg on 3 April 1770 (vol. III, pp. 105-233)
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