UID:
almafu_9959231571802883
Format:
1 online resource (384 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-06597-1
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0-253-10850-0
Series Statement:
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies Imperial Russia
Content:
""On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands."" -- American Historial Review""... innovative and substantive research... "" -- The Russian Review""Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection."" -- Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews""The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis."" -- Sl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Autocracy: Politics, Ideology, Symbol; 1 Kinship Politics/Autocratic Politics: A Reconsideration of Early-Eighteenth Century Political Culture; 2 The Idea of Autocracy among Eighteenth-Century Russian Historians; 3 The Russian Imperial Family as Symbol; PART II Imperial Imagination; 4 Collecting the Fatherland: Early-Nineteenth-Century Proposals for a Russian National Museum; 5 Science, Empire, and Nationality: Ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845...1855; PART III Practices of Empire
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6 Lines of Uncertainty, The Frontiers of the Northern Caucasus7 An Empire of Peasants, Empire-Building, Interethnic Interaction, and Ethnic Stereotyping in the Rural World of the Russian; 8 The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family, and the Social Order; 9 Institutionalizing Piety, The Church and Popular Religion, 1750...1850; PART IV Individuals and Publics; 10 An Eighteenth-Century Russian Merchant Family in Prosperity and Decline; 11 Freemasonry and the Public in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 12 Constructing the Meaning of Suicide, The Russian Press in the Age of the Great Reforms
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In Place of a ConclusionContributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-33462-4
Language:
English
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