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

1/2007

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

I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer of Ab Imperio and Marina Mogilner for probing comments and suggestions.

Marius Turda

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

1/2007

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

I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer of Ab Imperio for useful comments and suggestions.

Christian Marchetti

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

1/2007

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

I am grateful to the reviewers of Ab Imperio for their comments and suggestions.

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Elena Gapova

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

1/2007

FORUM AI
Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Mary Hawkesworth

Gender and the Public Sphere: A Genealogy from the West

1/2007

FORUM AI
Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Tatiana Zhurzhenko

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

1/2007

FORUM AI
Gender and Post-Soviet Nations

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Olga Zubkovskaia

Newest Mythologies

Ilya Gerasimov

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

1/2007

Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Historiography

Stephen Velychenko

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

1/2007

Serhii Plokhy, Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). xvi+614 pp. ISBN-10: 0-80-20393-75 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 0-80-20393-75"><img style="border: 0px none ;" src="http://www.citavi.com/softlink?linkid=FindIt" alt="Pick It!" title='Titel anhand dieser ISBN in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen'></a> ; ISBN-13: 978-0802-0393-78 (hardcover edition);
Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). xix+379 pp. ISBN-10: 0-52-18640-38; ISBN-13: 978-0521-8640-39 (hardcover edition).

Book Reviews

Marina Loskutova

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).

1/2007

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Elena Nosenko

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.

1/2007

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

Marianna Mouravieva

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.

1/2007

This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

1/2007

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

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

Was Poland an Empire?

Inventing Rzeczpospolita

“The Polish Question:” An Afterthought and Comment

Postscriptum

Polemics and Debates around the Introduction of Ethnic Categories into 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 - 1

Creating a Space of Freedom: Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich and Studies of Russian History in the US - 2

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”

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

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

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

Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005); Michael Kemper, Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan. Von den Khanaten und Gemeindebünden zum ðihâd-Staat (W

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).

Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.), Contemporary Change in Ukraine (Huddinge: Baltic and East European Graduate School, 2006);Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.), Contemporary Change in Kaliningrad. A Window to Europe? (Huddinge: Baltic and East European Graduate School, 2006

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.