Editors
From the Editors
2/2008
Issue 2/2008 Gardening the Imperial Subject: Intimate and Collective in the Imperial Space
Methodology and Theory
Edward Gray
The Other Continental Empire: American Perceptions of the Russian Empire, 1776-1789
2/2008
Most of this essay originally appeared as: Visions of Another Empire: John Ledyard, an American Traveler Across the Russian Empire, 1787-1788 // The Journal of the Early Republic. 2004. Vol. 24. No. 3. Pp. 347-380. Portions of it also appeared in: The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. New Haven, 2007. The author is grateful to the Journal of the Early Republic, the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Yale University Press for permission to reprint this material.
Most of this essay originally appeared as: Visions of Another Empire: John Ledyard, an American Traveler Across the Russian Empire, 1787-1788 // The Journal of the Early Republic. 2004. Vol. 24. No. 3. Pp. 347-380. Portions of it also appeared in: The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler. New Haven, 2007. The author is grateful to the Journal of the Early Republic, the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Yale University Press for permission to reprint this material.
Elizabeth Buettner
The Postman’s Letters: Long Distance Intimacy and the Family Lives of India’s Colonizers
2/2008
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Roundtable
“Sub Altera Specie”: A View at Postcolonial Paradigm from Inside Russian/Soviet History
2/2008
Adrienne Edgar
Sonja Luehrmann
Sergey Abashin
Elena Gapova
Adrienne Edgar
Sonja Luehrmann
Sergey Abashin
Elena Gapova
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Marriage, Modernity, and the “Friendship of Nations”: Interethnic Intimacy in Postwar Central Asia in Comparative Perspective
2/2008
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
History
Jan Kusber
Individual, Subject, and Empire. Toward a Discourse on Upbringing, Education, and Schooling in the Time of Catherine II
2/2008
Translated from German by Gregory Ferguson-Cradler.
Translated from German by Gregory Ferguson-Cradler.
Anatoly Remnev, Natalia Suvorova
“The Russian Cause” on the Asiatic Borderlands: The “Russianness” Under Threat and “Questionable Kulturträgers”
2/2008
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
M. Safa Saraçoğlu
Some Aspects of Ottoman Governmentality at the Local Level: The Judicio-Administrative Sphere of the Vidin County in the 1860s and 1870s
2/2008
I would like to thank The American Council of Learned Societies, The Institute of Turkish Studies, and Center for Advanced Study in Sofia for supporting this research and providing a stimulating environment for discussion. I am particularly indebted to Heather Almer, Margarita Dobreva, Michael Hickey, Huricihan İslamoğlu, Luke Springman, Milen Petrov, Evgeni Radushev, Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, Avi Rubin, Genadi Vulchev and the two anonymous referees of Ab Imperio who shared their time and knowledge with me. I am also grateful Milena Methodieva, her wonderful grandmother “Baba Radka,” and Zülfer Finkova who helped find my way around in Vidin.
I would like to thank The American Council of Learned Societies, The Institute of Turkish Studies, and Center for Advanced Study in Sofia for supporting this research and providing a stimulating environment for discussion. I am particularly indebted to Heather Almer, Margarita Dobreva, Michael Hickey, Huricihan İslamoğlu, Luke Springman, Milen Petrov, Evgeni Radushev, Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, Avi Rubin, Genadi Vulchev and the two anonymous referees of Ab Imperio who shared their time and knowledge with me. I am also grateful Milena Methodieva, her wonderful grandmother “Baba Radka,” and Zülfer Finkova who helped find my way around in Vidin.
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Victor Shnirelman
Hatred of Migrants and “Cultural Racism”
2/2008
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Vladimir Bobrovnikov
Why Are We Marginals? Marginalia on the Russian Translation of Orientalism by Edward Said
2/2008
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Sergey Glebov
Wither Eurasia? History of Ideas in an Imperial Situation
2/2008
I am grateful to my colleagues at Ab Imperio and to the reviewers for their helpful notes and suggestions. Special thanks to Martin Beisswenger for sharing with me his opinion on works discussed below and his thoughtful comments.
I am grateful to my colleagues at Ab Imperio and to the reviewers for their helpful notes and suggestions. Special thanks to Martin Beisswenger for sharing with me his opinion on works discussed below and his thoughtful comments.
Historiography
Alexander Semyonov
“Empire as a Moving Target”
2/2008
JANE BURBANK, MARK VON HAGEN, AND ANATOLYI REMNEV (EDS.), RUSSIAN EMPIRE: SPACE, PEOPLE, POWER, 1700-1930 (BLOOMINGTON: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007). 538 PP. MAPS, BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES AND INDEX. ISBN: 978-0-253-34901-9 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 978-0-253-34901-9"><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> .
JANE BURBANK, MARK VON HAGEN, AND ANATOLYI REMNEV (EDS.), RUSSIAN EMPIRE: SPACE, PEOPLE, POWER, 1700-1930 (BLOOMINGTON: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007). 538 PP. MAPS, BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES AND INDEX. ISBN: 978-0-253-34901-9 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 978-0-253-34901-9"><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> .
Book Reviews
Jan Kusber
Maureen Perrie, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Suny (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Russia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 3 vols. ill. ISBN: 0-521-186-194-2; 978-052-186-194-6 (hardback edition). ₤270.00 (US $475.00). Volum
2/2008
Maureen Perrie, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Suny (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Russia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 3 vols. ill. ISBN: 0-521-186-194-2; 978-052-186-194-6 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 978-052-186-194-6"><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> (hardback edition). ₤270.00 (US $475.00). Volume 1: From Early Rus’ to 1689; Volume 2: Imperial Russia 1689-1917; Volume 3: The Twentieth Century.
This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Maureen Perrie, Dominic Lieven, and Ronald Suny (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Russia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006). 3 vols. ill. ISBN: 0-521-186-194-2; 978-052-186-194-6 <a href="javascript:Pick it!ISBN: 978-052-186-194-6"><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> (hardback edition). ₤270.00 (US $475.00). Volume 1: From Early Rus’ to 1689; Volume 2: Imperial Russia 1689-1917; Volume 3: The Twentieth Century.
This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.
Kirsten Bönker
Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2006). (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; Bd. 172). 430 S. ISBN: 978-3-525-35153-6; 3
2/2008
Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2006). (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; Bd. 172). 430 S. ISBN: 978-3-525-35153-6; 352-535-153-4.
Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Die Grenzen der Gemeinsamkeit: Deutsche, Letten, Russen und Juden in Riga 1860-1914 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2006). (=Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft; Bd. 172). 430 S. ISBN: 978-3-525-35153-6; 352-535-153-4.
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2/2008
