The Russian Empire 1450-1801 EPUB
by Nancy Shields Kollmann
Part of the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe series
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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'sneeds 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, butdidn'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 ofpolitical 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 agrarianeconomy, 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.
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:09/02/2017
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- Pages:512 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
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- ISBN:9780191082702