TOC: AB IMPERIO 4/2006 THE LETTER OF THE LAW: THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF BELONGING TO POLITY

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Dear Colleagues,

Ab Imperio editors would like to draw your attention to the fourth issue of
the journal in 2006. This issue closes the annual focus on Anthropological
Perspectives on Languages of Description and Self-Description in Empire and
Nation. 

For all information, including tables of contents, abstracts, and
subscription information, please, visit 

http://abimperio.net 

Sergey Glebov

Ab Imperio 4/2006 The Letter of the Law: the Institutionalization of
Belonging to Polity 

Methodology

Editors
    Subjected to Citizenship: The Problem of Belonging to the State in
Empire and Nation (RUS/ENG)

Myron J. Aronoff
    Forty Years as a Political Ethnographer (ENG)

Interview with Peter Sahlins
    Subjecthood That Happens to Be Called Citizenship, Or Trying to Make
Sense of The Old Regime on Its Own Terms (ENG)

Alexander Kamenskii
    Subjecthood, Loyalty, and Patriotism in Imperial Discourses in
Eighteenth Century Russia: Outlining the Problem (RUS)

HISTORY

Natalia Iakovenko
    Life Space vs. Identity of the Rus Gentleman (the Case of Jan/Joachim
Erlich) (RUS)

Alsu Biktasheva
    Létat cest nous? Local Citizenship, Imperial Subjecthood, and the
Revision of Government Institutions in Kazan Province, 1819-1820 (RUS)

Olga Maiorova
    Searching for a New Language of Collective Self: The Symbolism of
Russian National Belonging During and After the Crimean War (ENG)

Mikhail Dolbilov
    The Tsars Faith: Mass Conversions of Catholics to Orthodoxy in the
North-Western Region of the Russian Empire (ca. 1860s) (RUS)

James Kennedy, Liliana Riga
    Mitteleuropa as Middle America? The Inquiry and the Mapping of East
Central Europe in 1919 (ENG)

Benno Gammerl
    Nation, State or Empire: Subjecthood and Citizenship in British and
Habsburg Empires at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (RUS)

ARCHIVE

Ernest Gyidel
    On Ukrainofilia of George V. Vernadsky, Or Miscellaneous Notes on the
Topic of National and State Loyalties (ENG)

Document
    George V. Vernadsky: I Think of Myself Both as a Ukrainian and a
Russian (RUS/UKR)

Sociology, Ethnology, Political

Rebecca Chamberlain-Creangã
    The Transnistrian people? Citizenship and Imaginings of the State in
an Unrecognized Country (ENG)

BOOK REVIEWS

R-FORUM IMPERIAL CITIES

Felix Driver and David Gilbert (Eds.), Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display
and Identity (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003).
272 pp. (=Studies in Imperialism). Index. ISBN: 0-719-0 6497-X (paperback
edition); Julie A. Buckler, Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and
Cityshape (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005). 320 pp. 

Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-691-11349-1.

Elena Trubina

Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Imprints: Post-Soviet St.-Petersburg

(Helsinki: SKS / Finnish Literature Society, 2003). 446 pp. 

Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 951-746-491-6 (hardback edition).

Sof'ja CHujkina

Richard Stites, Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The
Pleasure and the Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). xii+586 pp.
ISBN: 0-300-10889-3 (hardback edition).

Louise McReynolds

Lutz Hafner, Gesellschaft als lokale Veranstaltung. Die Wolgastadte Kazan
und Saratov (18701914) (Koln: Bohlau Verlag, 2004). 594 S. 

(=Beitrage zur Geschichte Osteuropas; Bd. 35). ISBN: 3-412-11403-0; Guido
Hausmann (Hg.), Gesellschaft als lokale Veranstaltung. 

Selbstverwaltung, Assoziierung und Geselligkeit in den Stadten des
ausgehenden Zarenreiches (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002). 485 S.
(=Burgertum. Beitrage zur europaischen Gesellschaftsgeschichte; Bd. 

22). ISBN: 3-525-35687-0.

Ljudmila Novikova

JU. V. Seleznev. A peremenit Bog ordu (Russko-ordynskie otnoshenija v konce
XIV  pervoj treti XV vv.). Voronezh: Voronezhskij gosudarstvennyj
universitet, 2006. 160 S. Karty, Tablicy, Prilozhenie, Bibliografija,
Imennoj ukazatel', Ukazatel' geograficheskih imen. ISBN: 5-9273-1017-6.

Charles Halperin

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Aleksandr Nevskij: Heiliger, Furst, Nationalheld;
eine Erinnerungsfigur im russischen kulturellen Gedachtnis

(12632000) (Koln: Bohlau Verlag, 2004). 548, [32] S. Ill. (=Beitraege zur
Geschichte Osteuropas; Bd. 36) Quellen- und Literaturverz. ISBN: 

3-412-06904-3.

Nikolaj Cimbaev

Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Belarus, 15691999 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003).
xv+367 pp. ISBN: 0-300-08480-3.

Viktorija Sukovataja

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russian Identities: A Historical Survey (Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). 278 pp. Index. ISBN: 

0-19-516550-1.

Elena Nosenko

Susan P. McCaffray, Michael Melancon (Eds.), Russia in The European Context,
17891914: A Member of the Family (New York and Houndmills: 

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). 256 pp. Index. ISBN: 1-4039-6855-1.

Natalie Bayer

Lev Gudkov. Negativnaja identichnost'. Stat'i 19972002 godov. Moskva: 

Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004 (=Serija: Biblioteka zhurnala
Neprikosnovennyj Zapas). 816 c. Ukazatel' imen. ISBN: 5-86793-300-8.

Marina Peunova

Hrestomatija po ustnoj istorii / Per., sost., vvedenie, obw. red. M. V. 

Loskutovoj. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Evropejskogo universiteta v
Sankt-Peterburge, 2003. 396 s. ISBN: 5-94380-024-7.

Alexander Ogden

Richard Kieckhefer, Theology in Stone: Church Architecture From Byzantium to
Berkeley (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). 372 pp., ill.
Index. ISBN: 0-19-515466-5.

Nikita Hrapunov

JAgen Miranovich. Najnoshaja gistoryja Belarusi. Sankt-Peterburg: 

Nevskij prostor, 2003. 243 s. ISBN: 5-94716-032-3.

Aleksandr Gronskij

Caroline Milow, Die Ukrainische Frage 1917-1923 im Spannungsfeld der
europaischen Diplomatie (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002)
(=Veroffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Instituts Munchen. Reihe: Geschichte; Bd.
68). 572 S. ISBN: 3-447-04482-9.

Maksim Kirchanov

T. K. JAwik. Rjadom s imperatricej. Vospominanija lejb-kazaka / Perevod s
datskogo izdanija 1968 g. Sankt-Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Sankt-Peterburgskogo
instituta istorii RAN, Nestor-Istorija, 2004. 252 c., ill. Prilozhenija,
Bibliografija, Imennoj ukazatel'. ISBN: 

5-98187-042-7.

Il'ja Kuksin

Rebecca Kay, Men in Contemporary Russia: The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet
Change? (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006). 246 pp. 

Bibliography, Index. ISBN: 0-7546-4485-5.

Ivan Gololobov

Richard Sakwa (Ed.), Chechnya: From Past to Future (London: Anthem Press,
2005). 300 pp. ISBN: 1-84331-165-8.

JAroslav Golovin

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