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

SeriesRussian history and culture, 1877-7791 ; v. 1
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1. ^A1255855
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.
General note"Published ... within the collective research project "Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire""--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2009012418
ISBN9789004175716 (hbk.)
ISBN9004175717 (hbk.)