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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Table of Contents:
- Defining empire in a dialogue. New imperial history and the challenges of empire / Ilya Gerasimov ... [et al.] ; Considerations on imperial comparisons / Ann Laura Stoler
- The challenge of unification and resistance. Governance, education, and the problems of empire in the age of Catherine II / Jan Kusber ; Us and them?: Polish self-descriptions and perceptions of the Russian Empire between homogeneity and diversity (1815-1863) / Hans-Christian Petersen ; Siberian middle ground: languages of rule and accommodation on the Siberian frontier / Sergey Glebov
- The challenge of transformation and rationalization. Russian physical anthropology of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries: imperial race, colonial other, degenerate types, and the Russian racial body / Marina Mogilner ; The real and live ethnographic map of Russia: the Russian Empire in the mirror of the State Duma / Alexander Semyonov ; Redefining empire: social engineering in late imperial Russia / Ilya Gerasimov.