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1 online resource (xxiii, 359 pages) : illustrations |
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies |
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Contents |
Kinship politics/autocratic politics: a reconsideration of early-eighteenth-century political culture / Valerie A. Kivelson -- The idea of autocracy among eighteenth-century Russian historians / Cynthia Hyla Whittaker -- The Russian imperial family as symbol / Richard Wortman -- Collecting the fatherland: early-nineteenth-century proposals for a Russian national museum / Kevin Tyner Thomas -- Science, empire, and nationality: ethnography in the Russian Geographical Society, 1845-1855 / Nathaniel Knight -- Lines of uncertainty: the frontiers of the northern Caucasus / Thomas M. Barrett -- An empire of peasants: empire-building, interethnic interaction, and ethnic stereotyping in the rural world of the Russian Empire, 1800-1850s / Willard Sunderland -- The serf economy, the peasant family and the social order / Steven L. Hoch -- Institutionalizing piety: the church and popular religion, 1750-1850 / Gregory L. Freeze -- An eighteenth-century Russian merchant family in prosperity and decline / David L. Ransel -- Freemasonry and the public in eighteenth-century Russia / Douglas Smith -- Constructing the meaning of suicide: the Russian press in the age of the great reforms / Irina Paperno |
| Summary |
"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands."--American Historial Review" ... innovative and substantive research ..."--The Russian Review"Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection."--Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews"The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis."--Slavic ReviewPresen |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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HISTORY.
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Politieke cultuur.
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Autocratie.
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Tsaren.
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Sociaal-economische geschiedenis.
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Rusland.
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Russia (Federation) -- History -- 18th century
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Russia (Federation) -- History -- 19th century
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Russia -- History -- 1689-1801. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125783
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Russia -- History -- 1801-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125796
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Russia (Federation)
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Congressen (vorm)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Burbank, Jane
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Ransel, David L
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| ISBN |
0253108500 |
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9780253108500 |
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