3/2015 Does the Past Have a Future?

Issue 3/2015 Does the Past Have a Future?

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Methodology and Theory

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Blinded by the Past

Jo Guldi, David Armitage

The History Manifesto. Chapter 3. The Long and the Short: Climate Change, Governance, and Inequality since the 1970s

History

Christopher Gilley

“Otamanshchyna”? The Self-Formation of Ukrainian and Russian Warlords at the Beginning of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Serhy Yekelchyk

National Heroes for a New Ukraine: Merging the Vocabularies of the Diaspora, Revolution, and Mass Culture

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Sergei Abashin

Returning Home: Family and Migration Scenarios in Uzbekistan

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 8. The Dilemma of Stability and Progress: Empire and Reforms in the Nineteenth Century: Part 2. Designing National Empire

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

Newest Mythologies

Sergey Krikh

The Planned Economy, from Sumer to the Soviet Union: The Fate of an Ancient Empire through the Eyes of Modern Historians

Book Reviews

Seymour Becker

Alfred J. Rieber, The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). 640 pp., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-04309-1.

Alexander Osipian

Gábor Kármán and Lovro Kunčević (Eds.), The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013). 449 pp. Indices. ISBN: 978-90-04-24606-5.

Oxana Ermolaeva

Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz (Eds.), Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). xii, 528 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-00631-8.

Igor Alexeev

James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856−1914 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). 224 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-872514-5.

Ab Imperio

Ab Imperio

Issue 3/2015 Does the Past Have a Future?

Methodology and Theory

Blinded by the Past

The History Manifesto. Chapter 3. The Long and the Short: Climate Change, Governance, and Inequality since the 1970s

History

“Otamanshchyna”? The Self-Formation of Ukrainian and Russian Warlords at the Beginning of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

National Heroes for a New Ukraine: Merging the Vocabularies of the Diaspora, Revolution, and Mass Culture

Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science

Returning Home: Family and Migration Scenarios in Uzbekistan

ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies

Chapter 8. The Dilemma of Stability and Progress: Empire and Reforms in the Nineteenth Century: Part 2. Designing National Empire

Newest Mythologies

The Planned Economy, from Sumer to the Soviet Union: The Fate of an Ancient Empire through the Eyes of Modern Historians

Book Reviews

Alfred J. Rieber, The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). 640 pp., maps. Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-04309-1.

Gábor Kármán and Lovro Kunčević (Eds.), The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013). 449 pp. Indices. ISBN: 978-90-04-24606-5.

Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz (Eds.), Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). xii, 528 pp., ills. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-00631-8.

James H. Meyer, Turks across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856−1914 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). 224 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-872514-5.

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Liliana Riga, The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 313 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index of Names. Subject Index. ISBN: 978-1-107-01422-0.

Anna Ananieva. Russisch Grün: Eine Kulturpoetik des Gartens im Russland des langen 18. Jahrhunderts. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010. 442 S., kart. Orts- und Personenregister. ISBN: 978-3-8376-1479-4.

Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik (Eds.), Twenty Years after Communism: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). 224 pp., ills. Bibliography. Subject Index. ISBN: 978-0-19-937514-1.

Stefan B. Kirmse, Youth and Globalization in Central Asia: Everyday Life between Religion, Media and International Donors (Frankfurt-New York: Campus Verlag, 2013). 337 pp., ills. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-3-593-39889-1.

Douglas Rogers, The Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals Culture and Society after Socialism (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009). 338 pp. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7520-7.

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