1/2014 Zeit und Raum: Adjacent Spaces, Overlapping Epochs

Issue 1/2014 Zeit und Raum: Adjacent Spaces, Overlapping Epochs

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

Do the “Assemblage Points” Exist?

Andrew Zimmerman

Race against Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe: From Hegel to Weber, from Rural Insurgency to “Polonization”

History

Stanislav Malkin

The Laboratory of Empire: Political Arithmetic, Social Engineering, and Solving the “Highland Problem” in Great Britain in the Late Seventeenth – First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Alexey Vdovin

Russian Ethnography of the 1850s and the Ethos of the Civilizing Mission: The Case of the “Literary Expedition” of the Naval Ministry

Diliara Usmanova

The Art of Public Speech in the Revolutionary Legislative Assembly: Rhetorical Portrait of the First and Second State Dumas (1906−07)

Darius Staliunas

Making a National Capital out of a Multiethnic City: Lithuanians and Vilnius in Late Imperial Russia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Vasilijus Safronovas

East Prussia – The Contested Inheritance?

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Editors

How to Recognize a New History and What to Expect from It? History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Chapter 1. Political Ecology: Formation of the Region of Northern Eurasia

Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Chapter 2. Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of the First Polities in Northern Eurasia: Formation of the Rous Land

Project Ab Imperio: History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Newest Mythologies

Rebecca Gould

Aleksandre Qazbegi’s Mountaineer Prosaics: The Anticolonial Vernacular on Georgian–Chechen Borderlands

Book Reviews

Jan Surman

Patrick Seriot. Les langues ne sont pas des choses. Discours sur langue et souffrance identitaire en Europe centrale et orientale. Paris: Editions PETRA, 2010. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-2-84743-026-4.

Jonathan Waterlow

Geoffrey Hosking (Guest Editor). “Trust and Distrust in the USSR”: Special Issue of Slavonic & East European Review. 2013. Vol. 91. No. 1. 154 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78188-018-0.

Lilia Berezhnaia

Вiктор Горобець. “Волимо царя схiдного...” Украiнський Гетьманат та росiйська династiя до i пiсля Переяслава. Киiв: Критика, 2007. 462 с. Покажчик. ISBN: 966-7679-89-6.

Andrey Lazarev

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia: The Teachings of Metropolitan Platon (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013). 193 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-469-9.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 1/2014 Zeit und Raum: Adjacent Spaces, Overlapping Epochs

Methodology and Theory

Do the “Assemblage Points” Exist?

Race against Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe: From Hegel to Weber, from Rural Insurgency to “Polonization”

History

The Laboratory of Empire: Political Arithmetic, Social Engineering, and Solving the “Highland Problem” in Great Britain in the Late Seventeenth – First Half of the Eighteenth Century

Russian Ethnography of the 1850s and the Ethos of the Civilizing Mission: The Case of the “Literary Expedition” of the Naval Ministry

The Art of Public Speech in the Revolutionary Legislative Assembly: Rhetorical Portrait of the First and Second State Dumas (1906−07)

Making a National Capital out of a Multiethnic City: Lithuanians and Vilnius in Late Imperial Russia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

East Prussia – The Contested Inheritance?

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

How to Recognize a New History and What to Expect from It? History Course “A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia”

Chapter 1. Political Ecology: Formation of the Region of Northern Eurasia

Chapter 2. Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of the First Polities in Northern Eurasia: Formation of the Rous Land

Newest Mythologies

Aleksandre Qazbegi’s Mountaineer Prosaics: The Anticolonial Vernacular on Georgian–Chechen Borderlands

Book Reviews

Patrick Seriot. Les langues ne sont pas des choses. Discours sur langue et souffrance identitaire en Europe centrale et orientale. Paris: Editions PETRA, 2010. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-2-84743-026-4.

Geoffrey Hosking (Guest Editor). “Trust and Distrust in the USSR”: Special Issue of Slavonic & East European Review. 2013. Vol. 91. No. 1. 154 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78188-018-0.

Вiктор Горобець. “Волимо царя схiдного...” Украiнський Гетьманат та росiйська династiя до i пiсля Переяслава. Киiв: Критика, 2007. 462 с. Покажчик. ISBN: 966-7679-89-6.

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia: The Teachings of Metropolitan Platon (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013). 193 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-469-9.

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Postwar Reconstruction and the Imperial Sublime in Vilnius during Late Stalinism

Robert E. Jones, Bread upon the Waters: The St. Petersburg Grain Trade and the Russian Economy, 1703−1811 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). 298 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-4428-7.

Adam Kożuchowski, The Afterlife of Austria-Hungary: The Image of the Habsburg Monarchy in Interwar Europe (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013). 232 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8229-6265-6.

Roger D. Markwick and Euridice Charon Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). xxiv, 305 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-0-230-57952-1.

Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker (Eds.), Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013). vii+ 338 pp., ills. Index. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0253-00937-1.

Mary C. Neuburger, Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). 307 pp., maps, ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5084-6.

Mischa Gabowitsch, Putin kaputt!? Russlands neue Protestkultur (Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2013). 438 s. ISBN: 978-3-518-12661-5.

Harry Miller, State Versus Gentry in Early Qing Dynasty China, 1644−1699 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 186 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-1-137-33405-3.

Mark Carey, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). vii + 273 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-539606-5.

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