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Book THREADS OF EMPIRE

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  • Author : DOROTHY. ARMSTRONG
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2025
  • ISBN : 9781399614238
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book THREADS OF EMPIRE written by DOROTHY. ARMSTRONG and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Threads of Empire

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  • Author : Dorothy Armstrong
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2025-04-08
  • ISBN : 1250321441
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Threads of Empire written by Dorothy Armstrong and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2025-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Threads of Empire

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  • Author : Charles Steinwedel
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-09
  • ISBN : 0253019338
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Threads of Empire written by Charles Steinwedel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of Bashkiria and its transformation into a Russian imperial region of the course of three and a half centuries. Threads of Empire examines how Russia’s imperial officials and intellectual elites made and maintained their authority among the changing intellectual and political currents in Eurasia from the mid-sixteenth century to the revolution of 1917. The book focuses on a region 750 miles east of Moscow known as Bashkiria. The region was split nearly evenly between Russian and Turkic language speakers, both nomads and farmers. Ufa province at Bashkiria’s core had the largest Muslim population of any province in the empire. The empire’s leading Muslim official, the mufti, was based there, but the region also hosted a Russian Orthodox bishop. Bashkirs and peasants had different legal status, and powerful Russian Orthodox and Muslim nobles dominated the peasant estate. By the twentieth century, industrial mining and rail commerce gave rise to a class structure of workers and managers. Bashkiria thus presents a fascinating case study of empire in all its complexities and of how the tsarist empire’s ideology and categories of rule changed over time. “An original and well-researched study of the incorporation of the Bashkir lands and their transformation into a Russian imperial region over the course of three and a half centuries. Steinwedel argues that the history of Bashkiria exposes a number of the empire’s achievements as a multiethnic society. . . . He draws out both important shifts and abiding continuities in the history of the region [and] by employing a multi-dimensional approach, covering a range of intersecting topics, provides a fuller appreciation for the region. He also does a nice job pointing out the useful commonalities and differences between the Bashkir lands and other parts of the empire, making a compelling case for Bashkiria’s importance for understanding larger processes.” —Willard Sunderland, author of Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe “With its solid grounding in Russian archival and printed sources and its sophisticated comparative approach, Steinwedel’s work will serve as a point of departure for historians of the Russian Empire, and will become a book of reference for any future study of empires in global history.” —American Historical Review “[Steinwedel’s] book is both a skilful exercise in local and regional history, and an important contribution to the history of Imperial Russia as a whole.” —Slavonic and East European Review

Book At the Margins of Orthodoxy

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  • Author : Paul William Werth
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780801438400
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book At the Margins of Orthodoxy written by Paul William Werth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillars of the Russian state, how did the tsarist bureaucracy govern an expansive realm inhabited by the peoples of many nations and ethnicities professing various faiths? Did the nature of tsarist rule change over time, and did it vary from region to region? Paul W. Werth considers these large questions in his survey of imperial Russian rule in the vast Volga-Kama region. First conquered in the sixteenth century, the Volga-Kama lands were by the nineteenth century both part of the Russian heartland and resolutely "other"--the home of a mix of Slavic, Finnic, and Turkic peoples where the urge to assimilate was always counterbalanced by determined efforts to preserve cultural and religious differences. The Volga-Kama thus poses the dilemmas of empire in especially complex and telling ways. Drawing on a wide range of printed and archival sources, Werth untangles and reconstructs this complicated history, focusing on the ways in which the tsarist state and Orthodox missions used conversion in their ongoing (and regularly frustrated) efforts to transform the region's Muslim and animist populations into imperial, Orthodox citizens. He shows that the regime became less concerned with religion and more concerned with secular attributes as the marker of cultural differences, an emphasis that would change dramatically in the early years of Soviet rule.

Book A Woman   s Empire

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  • Author : Katya Hokanson
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2022-10-03
  • ISBN : 1487545614
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book A Woman s Empire written by Katya Hokanson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s "civilizing" and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science. Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of "civilized" colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of the women’s writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how the works also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period.

Book Threads of an Empire

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  • Author : Simon Rudman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-22
  • ISBN : 9781520675176
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Threads of an Empire written by Simon Rudman and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3rd century BC - While Carthage struggles to meet the merciless terms of its Roman conquerors, Hamilcar Barcid craves vengeance. Indoctrinating his son, Hannibal, the Supreme Commander embarks on conquest in Iberia, sparking panic amongst the conniving Hundred and Four, and drawing the beady eye of Rome...In another time and place, a small thrall-girl comes back to life. With re-emergent purpose, she escapes the clutches of her Devorii masters, setting off a violent chain of events that will bring two worlds into direct conflict... Through all these machinations, twist the Threads, rendering every hero and villain a slave to his fate...

Book Tatar Empire

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  • Author : Danielle Ross
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-04
  • ISBN : 025304572X
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Tatar Empire written by Danielle Ross and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the relationship between the Russian government and its first Muslim subjects who served in the vanguard of the empire’s colonialism. In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia’s expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual culture that helped shaped their identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia’s commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity to the rest of Russia’s Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia’s imperial project with the history of Russia’s Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and intellectual developments within Kazan’s Muslim community and also considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation in the Russian eastward expansion. “This is a rich study that makes important contributions to the historiography of the Russian Empire, sharpening our picture of an empire in which lines between colonizer and colonized were far from clear.” —The Middle Ground Journal

Book Russia s Entangled Embrace

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  • Author : Stephen Badalyan Riegg
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 1501750127
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Russia s Entangled Embrace written by Stephen Badalyan Riegg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia's Entangled Embrace traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centers. By engaging the ongoing debates about imperial structures that were simultaneously symbiotic and hierarchically ordered, Stephen Badalyan Riegg helps us to understand how, for Armenians and some other subjects, imperial rule represented not hypothetical, clear-cut alternatives but simultaneous, messy realities. He examines why, and how, Russian architects of empire imagined Armenians as being politically desirable. These circumstances included the familiarity of their faith, perceived degree of social, political, or cultural integration, and their actual or potential contributions to the state's varied priorities. Based on extensive research in the archives of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Yerevan, Russia's Entangled Embrace reveals that the Russian government relied on Armenians to build its empire in the Caucasus and beyond. Analyzing the complexities of this imperial relationship—beyond the reductive question of whether Russia was a friend or foe to Armenians—allows us to study the methods of tsarist imperialism in the context of diasporic distribution, interimperial conflict and alliance, nationalism, and religious and economic identity.

Book Fairchild s National Directory and Digest

Download or read book Fairchild s National Directory and Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factory  the Magazine of Management

Download or read book Factory the Magazine of Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Automotive Industries  the Automobile

Download or read book Automotive Industries the Automobile written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factory

Download or read book Factory written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 24, no. 3-v. 34, no. 3 include: International industrial digest.

Book Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers

Download or read book Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 30-54 (1932-46) issued in 2 separately paged sections: General editorial section and a Transactions section. Beginning in 1947, the Transactions section is continued as SAE quarterly transactions.

Book Automotive Industries

Download or read book Automotive Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Hide an Empire

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  • Author : Daniel Immerwahr
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 0374715122
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book How to Hide an Empire written by Daniel Immerwahr and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

Book Automobile Trade Journal

Download or read book Automobile Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: