1/2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

Issue 1/2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

Forum AI: How Is Knowledge About Empire and Nation Created? Continuing the Conversation

Forum AI: How Is Knowledge About Empire and Nation Created? Continuing the Conversation

Forum AI: How Is Knowledge About Empire and Nation Created? Continuing the Conversation

Forum AI: How Is Knowledge About Empire and Nation Created? Continuing the Conversation

Forum AI: Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Difference in Empire and Nation

Forum AI: Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Difference in Empire and Nation

Forum AI: Anthropological Knowledge and the Politics of Difference in Empire and Nation

Forum AI: Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Forum AI: Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Forum AI: Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Issue 1/2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

Was Poland an Empire?

Questions of Ab Imperio Editors to the Collocutors and Commentators

Inventing Rzeczpospolita

“The Polish Question:” An Afterthought and Comment

Postscriptum

Debates around the Ethnic Statistics in France

History

A Liberal Paradigm? Race and Ideology in Late-Nineteenth-Century German Physical Anthropology

Race, Politics and Nationalist Darwinism in Hungary, 1880-1918

Scientists with Guns: On the Ethnographic Exploration of the Balkans by Austrian-Hungarian Scientists before and during World War I

Archive

Creating a Space of Freedom: Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich and Studies of Russian History in the US

Michael Karpovich and Problems of Russian History and Historiography

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Gender and Post-Soviet Nations: The Private as the Political

Gender and the Public Sphere: A Genealogy from the West

Between Clan, Family, and Nation: Post-Soviet Masculinity / Femininity in “Color Revolutions”

Postcolonial Theory in the Post-Soviet Feminist Analysis: Dilemmas of Applicability

Newest Mythologies

The Burden of Lessons Mugged Up: Egor Gaidar and the Deconstruction of Empire

Historiography

Nationalizing and Denationalizing the Past. Ukraine and Russia in Comparative Context

Book Reviews

Emily Johnson, How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006). xiii+303 pp., ills. Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-271-02872-6 (hardcover edition).

Этнография Петербурга – Ленинграда. Тридцать лет изучения, 1974 – 2004 / Сост. и отв. редактор Н. В. Юхнёва. Санкт-Петербург: МАЭ РАН, 2004. 402 с. (=KUNSTKAMERA PETROPOLI-TANA). ISBN: 5-88431-109-5.

Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 392 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11558-3.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Russian Physical Anthropology in Search of “Imperial Race”: Liberalism and Modern Scientific Imagination in the Imperial Situation

Liberalism in Imperial Anthropology: Notes on an Implicit Paradigm in Continental European Anthropology before World War I

Gender Scenarios of Ethnic Conflicts: Narratives of the Karabakh War

Feminist Foremother for a Nation? Mapping the History of the Women’s Movement in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). xvi+240 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Maps, Tables, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-7330-2 (paperb

Roshanna P. Sylvester, Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005). x+244 pp. Notes, Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-346-3.

Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein (Eds.), The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). 576 pp., ill. Map, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8047-4527-7 (hardcover editio

Steven M. Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941 – 1945 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003). 432 pp., ill. Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8078-2736-3.

Kees Boterbloem, The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896 – 1948 (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). xxiv+593 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7735-2666-8 (hardcover edition).

Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xvi+330 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-02674-1 (paperback edition).

Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction of Early Finnish History (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society / Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006). 555 pp., ill. (=Studia Finnica). ISBN: 951-746-787-7.

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