Imperiology: From Empirical Knowledge to Discussing the Russian Empire

Introduction				174KB
	Kimitaka Matsuzato	.....	5

I. A Mega-System of Empires		.....	17

1.	The Value and the Limits of a Comparative Approach to the History of Contiguous Empires on the European Periphery			161KB
	Alexey Miller	.....	19

2.	Preliminaries to a Comparative History of the Russian and Ottoman Empires: Perspectives from Ottoman Studies			193KB
	Jun Akiba	.....	33

II. Contact Zones and Ethnoconfessional Politics		.....	49

3.	Imperiology and Religion: Some Thoughts on a Research Agenda			184KB
	Paul Werth	.....	51

4.	Islam and Empire Observed: Muslims in the Volga-Ural Region after the 1905 Revolution			212KB
	Norihiro Naganawa	.....	68

5.	Volyn within the Russian Empire: Migratory Processes and Cultural Interaction			220KB
	Valentyna Nadolska	.....	85

6.	From "Kazan’s Newly Converted" to "Orthodox Inorodtsy": The Historical Stages of the Affirmation of Christianity in the Middle Volga Region			209KB
	Leonid A. Taimasov	.....	111

III. Thorny Paths from Empire to Nations		.....	139

7.	Russian Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Policy of Russification in the Russian Empire’s Western Region			200KB
	Mikhail Dolbilov	.....	141

8.	To What Extent Could the Empire Be Constructed? Objective Limitation on Agrarian Discourse in Nineteenth-century Russia: the Baltic Provinces, the Russian Black Soil Region, and Right-Bank Ukraine			177KB
	Takeshi Matsumura	.....	159

9.	In Search of Internal Balance: Debate on Changes in the Territorial-Administrative Division of the Russian Empire in the 1830s and 1840s			177KB
	Leonid Gorizontov	.....	179

10.	From National Territorial Autonomy to Independence of Estonia: The War and Revolution in the Baltic Region, 1914-1917			186KB
	Tiit Rosenberg	.....	199

IV. Distant but Central: The Far East Fringes of the Russian Empire		.....	223

11.	Russian Imperialism in the Far East at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Collapse of S. Iu. Witte’s Program of Economic Expansion			173KB
	Igor V. Lukoianov	.....	225

12.	Russian Politarism as the Main Reason for the Selling of Alaska			175KB
	Andrei V. Grinev	.....	245

13.	Maritime History and Imperiology: Japan’s Northern FisheriesB and the Priamur Governor-Generalship			169KB
	Eisuke Kaminaga	.....	259