Historical context: Armenians and the Russian empire -- The politics of historicism in national identity formation -- Step'anos Nazaryan: biography and early works -- Step'anos Nazaryan's pioneering journal: Hyusisap'ayl [northern lights] monthly, 1858-1864 -- "Our rose-colored glasses ... have fallen from our eyes": historicism and the cultivation of a modern eastern Armenian identity -- Locating Armenia through the human and social sciences: travel literature, demography, philology, ethnography, and local history
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index