Empire speaks out : languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire / / edited by Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber and Alexander Semyonov.

Historians habitually write about empires that expand, wage wars, and collapse, as if empires were self-evident and self-conscious entities with a distinct and clear sense of purpose. The stories of empires are told in the language of modern nation-centred social sciences: multi-cultural and heterog...

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Superior document:Russian history and culture, v. 1
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
Notes:"Published ... within the collective research project 'Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire'"--T.p. verso.
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