2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds

Issue 2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds

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Methodology and Theory

Editors

From the Editors

Alessandro Stanziani

Introduction to the Forum

Forum Ab Imperio: Freedom, Labor, and Empires: Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Martin A. Klein

African Traditions of Servitude and the Evolution of African Society

Forum Ab Imperio: Freedom, Labor, and Empires: Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Ulbe Bosma

Reciprocal Comparisons and the Domains beyond Imperial Control

Forum Ab Imperio: Freedom, Labor, and Empires: Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

Alessandro Stanziani

Russian Serfdom: A Reappraisal

Forum Ab Imperio: Freedom, Labor, and Empires: Reciprocal Comparisons and Entanglements

History

Svetlana Gorshenina

A Theory of “Natural Boundaries” and the Conquest of Kuldja (1870–1871): A Self-portrait of Russian Military and Diplomatic Elites in St. Petersburg and Turkestan

Forum Ab Imperio: In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Alexander Morrison

Russia, Khoqand, and the Search for a “Natural” Frontier, 1863–1865

Forum Ab Imperio: In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Beatrice Penati

Life on the Edge: Border-Making and Agrarian Policies in the Aim District (Eastern Fergana), 1924−1929

Forum Ab Imperio: In Search of “Natural Boundaries” of Russia’s Central Asia

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Madeleine Reeves

Roads of Hope and Dislocation: Infrastructure and the Remaking of Territory at a Central Asian Border

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State Building in Northern Eurasia, 11–12th Centuries

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

Chapter 4. From Local Political Spaces to Hierarchical Statehood: Interactions and Entanglements of Local Scenarios of Power, 13–14th Centuries

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

Newest Mythologies

Marco Puleri

Ukraïns’kyi, Rosiis’komovnyi, Rosiis’kyi: Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian

Historiography

Alexander Gogun

A Book about a Branch of East-Slavic Totalitarianism

Forum: Олександр Зайцев. Український інтеґральний націоналізм (1920-ті – 1930-ті роки). Нариси інтелектуальної історії. Київ: Критика, 2013.

Oleksandr Zaitsev

A Book about the Ukrainian Branch of Integral Nationalism (A Response to the Review by Alexander Gogun)

Book Reviews

Julia Fein

Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850−1950 (Cornell University Press, 2013). xii + 374 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7878-9.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009). 314 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-696-01577-4.

Vitalii Ananiev

Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013). 349 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5146-1.

Sebastian Rimestad

Karsten Brüggemann and Bradley D. Woodworth (Eds.), Russland an der Ostsee: Imperiale Strategien der Macht und kulturelle Wahrnehmungsmuster (16. bis 20. Jahrhundert) – Russia on the Baltic: Imperial Strategies of Power and Cultural Patterns of Perception (16th–20th Centuries) (Quellen und Studien zur baltischen Geschichte. No. 22) (Wien, Köln and Weimar: Böhlau, 2012). 423 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-412-20671-0.

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Issue 2/2014 Crossroads and Multiple Temporalities: Contact Zones and Middle Grounds

Methodology and Theory

From the Editors

Introduction to the Forum

African Traditions of Servitude and the Evolution of African Society

Reciprocal Comparisons and the Domains beyond Imperial Control

Russian Serfdom: A Reappraisal

History

A Theory of “Natural Boundaries” and the Conquest of Kuldja (1870–1871): A Self-portrait of Russian Military and Diplomatic Elites in St. Petersburg and Turkestan

Russia, Khoqand, and the Search for a “Natural” Frontier, 1863–1865

Life on the Edge: Border-Making and Agrarian Policies in the Aim District (Eastern Fergana), 1924−1929

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Roads of Hope and Dislocation: Infrastructure and the Remaking of Territory at a Central Asian Border

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State Building in Northern Eurasia, 11–12th Centuries

Chapter 4. From Local Political Spaces to Hierarchical Statehood: Interactions and Entanglements of Local Scenarios of Power, 13–14th Centuries

Newest Mythologies

Ukraïns’kyi, Rosiis’komovnyi, Rosiis’kyi: Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian

Historiography

A Book about a Branch of East-Slavic Totalitarianism

A Book about the Ukrainian Branch of Integral Nationalism (A Response to the Review by Alexander Gogun)

Book Reviews

Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850−1950 (Cornell University Press, 2013). xii + 374 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7878-9.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009). 314 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-696-01577-4.

Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013). 349 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5146-1.

List of Contributors

Our Authors

Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011). 385 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-35617-8.

А. В. Антощенко. Русский либерал-англофил Павел Гаврилович Виноградов: Монография. Петрозаводск: Изд-во ПетрГУ, 2010. 344 с. ISBN: 978-5-8021-1018-8.

Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala, The Search for Socialist Eldorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2014). 274 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-88755-764-4.

Jeremy Smith, Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013). xix, 408 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-521-12870-4.

Natalya Chernyshova, Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2013). 262 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-415-68754-6.

Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca (Eds.), Everyday Life in Central Asia. Past and Present (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007). 401 pp. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-21904-6.

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