TOC: Ab Imperio 1-2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

Mon Jun 4 14:58:29 UTC 2007

Dear Colleagues,

Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the first issue of
the journal in 2007. This thematic issue (“The Discipline of History and the
Punishment of Empire”) opens the journals annual program “THE IMPERIUM OF
KNOWLEDGE AND THE POWER OF SILENCES”
Please, visit the journal’s site at http://abimperio.net for information on
manuscript submission, subscriptions, and annual thematic concentrations.

With best wishes,

Sergey Glebov

Ab Imperio 1-2007 The Discipline of History and the Punishment of Empire

Methodology and Theory
Editors
    From the Editors (Eng/Rus)

Conversation: Andrzej Nowak and Roman Szporluk
    Was Poland an Empire?(Rus)

Questions of AI Editors to the Collocutors and Commentators

Andriy Portnov
    Inventing Rzeczpospolita (Rus)

Roman Szporluk
    “The Polish Question:” An Afterthought and Comment (Rus)

Andrzej Nowak
    Postscriptum(Rus)

Alain Blum, France Guérin-Pace
    Polemics and Debates around the Introduction of Ethnic Categories into
Statistics in France (Rus)

History

Andrew D. Evans
    A Liberal Paradigm? Race and Ideology in Late-Nineteenth-Century German
Physical Anthropology (Eng)

Marius Turda
    Race, Politics and Nationalist Darwinism in Hungary, 1880-1918 (Eng)

Christian Marchetti
    Scientists with Guns: On the Ethnographic Exploration of the Balkans by
Austrian-Hungarian Scientists before and during World War I (Eng)

Marina Mogilner
    Russian Physical Anthropology in Search of “Imperial Race”: Liberalism
and Modern Scientific Imagination in the Imperial Situation (Eng)

Andre Gingrich
    Liberalism in Imperial Anthropology: Notes on an Implicit Paradigm in
Continental European Anthropology before World War I (Eng)
Archive
Alla Zeide
    Creating a Space of Freedom: Mikhail Mikhailovich Karpovich and Studies
of Russian History in the US (Eng)

Document
    Michael Karpovich and Problems of Russian History and Historiography
(Eng)
Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Elena Gapova
    Gender and Post-Soviet Nations: The Private as the Political (Rus)

Mary Hawkesworth
    Gender and the Public Sphere: A Genealogy from the West (Eng)

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
    Between Clan, Family, and Nation: Post-Soviet Masculinity / Femininity
in “Color Revolutions” (Rus)

Olga Zubkovskaia
    Postcolonial Theory in the Post-Soviet Feminist Analysis: Dilemmas of
Applicability (Rus)

Nona Shakhnazarian
    Gender Scenarios of Ethnic Conflicts: Narratives of the Karabakh War
(Rus)

Alicja Kusiak-Brownstein
    Feminist Foremother for a Nation? Mapping the History of the Women’s
Movement in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe (Eng)

Newest Mythologies
Ilya Gerasimov
    The Burden of Lessons Mugged Up: Egor Gaidar and the Deconstruction of
Empire (Rus)

Historiography
Stephen Velychenko
    Nationalizing and Denationalizing the Past. Ukraine and Russia in
Comparative Context (Eng)

Book Reviews

Marina Loskutova
    Emily Johnson, How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian
Idea of Kraevedenie (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 2006). xiii+303 pp., ills. Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN:
0-271-02872-6 (hardcover edition).

Elena Nosenko
    Etnografiia Peterburga – Leningrada. Tridtsat’ let izucheniia, 1974 –
2004 / Comp. edited by N. V. Iukhneva. St Petersburg: MAE RAN, 2004. 402 p.
(=KUNSTKAMERA PETROPOLI-TANA). ISBN: 5-88431-109-5.

Marianna Mouravieva
    Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in
Britain and France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 392 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11558-3.

Wim van Meurs
    Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire
in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005); Michael Kemper,
Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan. Von den Khanaten und
Gemeindebünden zum ðihâd-Staat (W

Stephen Jones
    Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and
Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2006). xvi+240 pp. Appendix, Glossary, Maps, Tables, Photographs,
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-8014-7330-2 (paperb

Andrew Gentes
    Roshanna P. Sylvester, Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City
of Thieves (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005). x+244 pp.
Notes, Maps, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 978-0-87580-346-3.

Olga Gershenson
    M. Elenevskaia, L. Fialkova. Russkaia ulitsa v evreiskoi strane:
Issledovanie fol’klora emigrantov 1990-kh v Izraile. Moscow: Institut
etnologii I antropologii RAN, 2005. Part 1. 353 p.; Part 2. 243 p., ill.
Appendixes, Bibliography. ISBN: 5-201-00887-9.

Alexander Lokshin
    Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein (Eds.), The Worlds of S.
An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2006). 576 pp., ill. Map, Bibliography, Index.
ISBN: 0-8047-4527-7 (hardcover editio

Pavel Krylov
    Steven M. Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance
Politics, 1941 – 1945 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North
Carolina Press, 2003). 432 pp., ill. Maps, Bibliography, Index. ISBN:
0-8078-2736-3.

Ilya Kuksin
    Kees Boterbloem, The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896 – 1948
(Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004). xxiv+593 pp.
Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7735-2666-8 (hardcover edition).

Alexander Androshchuk
    Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.), Contemporary Change in Ukraine (Huddinge:
Baltic and East European Graduate School, 2006);Egle Rindzeviciute (Ed.),
Contemporary Change in Kaliningrad. A Window to Europe? (Huddinge: Baltic
and East European Graduate School, 2006

Emilian Kavalski
    Mark Bassin, Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical
Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006). xvi+330 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-02674-1 (paperback
edition).

Maksim Kirchanov
    Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction
of Early Finnish History (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society / Suomalaisen
Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006). 555 pp., ill. (=Studia Finnica). ISBN:
951-746-787-7.

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