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Empire speaks out : languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire

Title
Empire speaks out : languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire / edited by Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber and Alexander Semyonov.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Gerasimov, Ilʹi͡a.
  • Kusber, Jan.
  • Semyonov, Alexander.
Description
vi, 280 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Cultural pluralism > Russia > History
  • Imperialism > History. > Russia
  • Rationalization (Psychology) > History. > Russia
  • Self-perception > History. > Russia
  • Language and culture > Russia
  • Discourse analysis > Russia
  • Russia > Ethnic relations
  • Russia > Social conditions
  • Russia > Politics and government
  • Russia > History > Sources
Note
  • "Published ... within the collective research project "Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire""--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9789004175716 (hbk.)
  • 9004175717 (hbk.)
LCCN
  • 2009012418
  • 99935026131
OCLC
  • ocn317623286
  • 317623286
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries