Integrating Imperial Space
Integrating Imperial Space

Author: Boris Ganichev

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2023-05-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3647302082

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In the second half of the 19th century visions of an infrastructurally integrated imperial space captivated the minds of Russian administrators and businessmen. Infrastructural integration promised to unravel the economic and political potential of the Russian Empire but it also revealed its administrative weakness. The book explores the challenges the Tsarist administration faced in harmonizing the multitudinous regional economic regimes in its vast landed empire. It analyzes conflicting logics towards the imperial space and demonstrates how the modern project of an infrastructurally integrated space limited the leeway in resorting to imperial administrative practices and accelerated the "nationalization" of the Russian Empire's economic space.

Integrating Imperial Space
Integrating Imperial Space

Author: Boris Ganichev

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783666302084

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Teaser This volume examines the infrastructural integration in the Russian Empire - showing its strengths but also revealing its flaws.

Channelling Mobilities
Channelling Mobilities

Author: Valeska Huber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1107244986

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The history of globalisation is usually told as a history of shortening distances and acceleration of the flows of people, goods and ideas. Channelling Mobilities refines this picture by looking at a wide variety of mobile people passing through the region of the Suez Canal, a global shortcut opened in 1869. As an empirical contribution to global history, the book asks how the passage between Europe and Asia and Africa was perceived, staged and controlled from the opening of the Canal to the First World War, arguing that this period was neither an era of unhampered acceleration, nor one of hardening borders and increasing controls. Instead, it was characterised by the channelling of mobilities through the differentiation, regulation and bureaucratisation of movement. Telling the stories of tourists, troops, workers, pilgrims, stowaways, caravans, dhow skippers and others, the book reveals the complicated entanglements of empires, internationalist initiatives and private companies.

The Imperial Map
The Imperial Map

Author: James R. Akerman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0226010767

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Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond our boundaries. This study examines how cartography has been used to prop up a variety of imperialist enterprises.

Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Author: Franziska Davies

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2015-11-18

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 364731028X

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The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were multiethnic and multireligious empires, which ruled over a large number of Jews and Muslims. In many ways these two non-Christian minorities presented similar challenges to the imperial order. Which policies did the state pursue toward Jews and Muslims? How did Jews and Muslims attempt to advance their interests in the political sphere? Which role did they play in the imperial army? What did the Jewish and Muslim Enlightenment movements have in common? In which respects were the experiences of Jews and Muslims fundamentally different? This book brings together specialists in Russian-Jewish and Russian-Muslim history and offers perspectives for a comparative approach to the history of Jews and Muslims in Russia.

The French Imperial Nation-State
The French Imperial Nation-State

Author: Gary Wilder

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-05-08

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 022677385X

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France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.

A Contested Borderland
A Contested Borderland

Author: Andrei Cusco

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9633861594

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Bessarabia?mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova?was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ?symbolic inclusion,? but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era. ÿ

International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration
International Institutions and the Political Economy of Integration

Author: Miles Kahler

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780815748229

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In this book, Miles Kahler examines both global and regional institutions and their importance in the world economy. Kahler explains the variation in these institutions and assesses the role they play in sustaining economic cooperation among nations.

Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red
Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red

Author: Stephen Velychenko

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1442617144

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In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of "national communism" in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian imperialism and colonialism. The first extended analysis of Russian communist rule in Ukraine to focus on the Ukrainian communists, their attempted anti-Bolshevik uprising in 1919, and their exclusion from the Comintern, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red re-opens a long forgotten chapter of the early years of the Soviet Union and the relationship between nationalism and communism. An appendix provides a valuable selection of Ukrainian Marxist texts, all translated into English for the first time.

Cartographies of Tsardom
Cartographies of Tsardom

Author: Valerie Ann Kivelson

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780801472534

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"By studying 17th century maps Kivelson sheds light on Muscovite Russia - the relationship of state and society, the growth of an empire, the rise of serfdom and the place of Orthodox Christianity in society"-OCLC