Год выпуска: 1997 Издательство: Indiana University Press Страниц: 368 ISBN: 0253211131
Описание
' ...the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian peoples...a new paradigm for looking at the imperial history of tsarist Russia' - Ronald Grigor Suny. 'The volume is particularly useful for undergraduate survey courses on Imperial Russia and for graduate colloquia on the Imperial period which seek to consider, among other topics, the polyethnic/multinational character of the Russian state. The contributions bring together a wealth of perspectives, many of them not available elsewhere' - Mark von Hagen. "Russia's Orient" investigates the impact of the Russian Empire on its non-Russian peoples of the southern and eastern borderlands from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.Using the methodological tools applied in recent years to the history of Western colonial empires, it expands the scope of...
