Catherine Gibson's carefully researched and original book opens new avenues for analysing the history of the Baltic littoral. Timely published in a year when knowledge and understanding about Russia's western borderlands is much needed, it is...a good read for students and will be of great interest to historians of science and cartography, as well as of Central Europe and the Russian Empire.

Charlotte Henze, Slavonic and East European Review

In Geographies of Nationhood Catherine Gibson brings a little-studied part of the world into view and along the way makes a powerful case for the agency of maps in shaping that world.

Valerie A. Kivelson, Imago Mundi

Gibson's monograph is nuanced in its interventions, lucid and uniquely accessible in its prose. This is a unique combination that makes the work desirable and necessary reading for specialists in the history of empire or the history of cartography, those interested in the Baltic provinces, or students at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Ismael Biyashev, H-Sci-Med-Tech

This study is a valuable addition to the historiography of the empire, and a strong candidate for translation and inclusion in the Novoe Literature Obozrenie series on the history of the Imperial Russian borderlands.

Anton Kotenko, Lithuanian Historical Studies

This study has much to teach us about wider themes of Baltic regional and national histories, international and inter-ethnic collaborations in the age of empire, and the evolution of local self-perception in a contested borderland

Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Canadian-American Slavic Studies

This monograph deserves attention not only from historians of cartography and the Baltic region, but also from specialists of empire, nation, as well as transnational and intellectual histories.

Stephen Badalyan Riegg, Canadian-American Slavic Studies