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Title Empire speaks out [electronic resource] : languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire / edited by Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber and Alexander Semyonov.

Imprint Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description vi, 280 p.
Series Russian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; v. 1
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
Note "Published ... within the collective research project 'Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire'"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Defining empire in a dialogue. New imperial history and the challenges of empire / Ilya Gerasimov ... [et al.] ; Considerations on imperial comparisons / Ann Laura Stoler -- The challenge of unification and resistance. Governance, education, and the problems of empire in the age of Catherine II / Jan Kusber ; Us and them?: Polish self-descriptions and perceptions of the Russian Empire between homogeneity and diversity (1815-1863) / Hans-Christian Petersen ; Siberian middle ground: languages of rule and accommodation on the Siberian frontier / Sergey Glebov -- The challenge of transformation and rationalization. Russian physical anthropology of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries: imperial race, colonial other, degenerate types, and the Russian racial body / Marina Mogilner ; The real and live ethnographic map of Russia: the Russian Empire in the mirror of the State Duma / Alexander Semyonov ; Redefining empire: social engineering in late imperial Russia / Ilya Gerasimov.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cultural pluralism -- Russia -- History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History.
Rationalization (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History.
Self-perception -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History.
Language and culture -- Russia.
Discourse analysis -- Russia.
Russia -- Ethnic relations.
Russia -- Social conditions.
Russia -- Politics and government.
Russia -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gerasimov, Ilia.
Kusber, Jan.
Semyonov, Alexander.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004175716 (hbk.)
9004175717 (hbk.)
9789047429159 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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