RUSSIAN EMPIRE 1450-1801 OHEME C

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-928051-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 928 g

Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'politics of difference': the rulers and their elites at the center defined the state's needs minimally - with control over defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources - and otherwise tolerated local religions, languages, cultures, elites, and institutions. The center related to communities and religions vertically, according each a modicum of rights and autonomies, but didn't allow horizontal connections across nobilities, townsmen, or other groups potentially with common interests to coalesce. Thus, the Russian empire was multi-ethnic and multi-religious; Nancy Kollmann gives detailed attention to the major ethnic and religious groups, and surveys the government's strategies of governance - centralized bureaucracy, military reform, and a changed judicial system. The volume pays particular attention to the dissemination of a supranational ideology of political legitimacy in a variety of media - written sources and primarily public ritual, painting, and particularly architecture. Beginning with foundational features, such as geography, climate, demography, and geopolitical situation, The Russian Empire 1450-1801 explores the empire's primarily agrarian economy, serfdom, towns and trade, as well as the many religious groups - primarily Orthodoxy, Islam, and Buddhism. It tracks the emergence of an 'Imperial nobility' and a national self-consciousness that was, by the end of the eighteenth century, distinctly imperial, embracing the diversity of the empire's many peoples and cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kollmann, Nancy Shields

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction: The Russian Empire 1450-1801

- Prologue: The Chronological Arc

- PART I: ASSEMBLING THE EMPIRE

- 1: Land, People, and Global Context

- 2: De Facto Empire: The Rise of Moscow

- 3: Assembling Empire: The First Two Centuries

- 4: Eighteenth-Century Expansion: Siberia and Steppe

- 5: Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century

- PART II: THE MUSCOVITE EMPIRE THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

- 6: Broadcasting Legitimacy

- 7: The State Wields its Power

- 8: Trade, Tax, and Production

- 9: Cooptation - Creating an Elite

- 10: Rural Taxpayers - Peasants and Beyond

- 11: Towns and Townsmen

- 12: Varieties of Orthodoxy

- PART III: THE CENTURY OF EMPIRE: RUSSIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

- 13: Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center

- 14: Army and Administration

- 15: Fiscal Policy and Trade

- 16: Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion

- 17: Soslovie, Serfdom, and Society on the Move

- 18: Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform

- 19: Confessionalization in a Multiethnic Empire

- 20: Maintaining Orthodoxy

- 21: Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life

- Conclusion: Constructing and Envisioning Empire

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Kollmann has taught early modern Russian history at Stanford University since 1982. Her research has focused on the problem of how politics worked in an autocratic state; she has studied how the great men of the Moscow court received and enhanced their political positions through marriage and kinship, how the tsar's government supported litigations over personal honor for all social groups as a means of social integration and how criminal law was applied in practice. She has also focused on the image of Russia conveyed to Europeans in contemporary engravings, maps, and books.