Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands /

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands / / ed. by Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Krista A. Goff.

Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands engages with the evolving historiography around the concept of belonging in the Russian and Ottoman empires. The contributors to this book argue that the popular notion that empires do not care about belonging is simplistic and wrong.Chapters address...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Campbell, Ian W.,
Goff, Krista A.,
Johnson, Jeremy,
Kaiser, Claire P.,
Klein, Janet,
Laycock, Jo,
Naimark, Norman M.,
Payne, Matthew J.,
Rapp, Stephen H. Jr.,
Schafer, Daniel E.,
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.,
Smith, Jeremy,
Suny, Ronald Grigor,
Whittington, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Goff, Krista A.,
Siegelbaum, Lewis H.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 2 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands
  • 1. Making Minorities in the Eurasian Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective from the Russian and Ottoman Empires
  • Part One: Negations of Belonging
  • 2. Bloody Belonging: Writing Transcaspia into the Russian Empire
  • 3. The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Lineaments of a Comparative History
  • 4. “Do You Want Me to Exterminate All of Them or Just the Ones Who Oppose Us?”: The 1916 Revolt in Semirech′e
  • 5. “What Are They Doing? After All, We’re Not Germans”: Expulsion, Belonging, and Postwar Experience in the Caucasus
  • Part Two: Belonging via Standardization
  • 6. Developing a Soviet Armenian Nation: Refugees and Resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus
  • 7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900–1970
  • 8. Speaking Soviet with an Armenian Accent: Literacy, Language Ideology, and Belonging in Early Soviet Armenia
  • Part Three: Belonging and Mythmaking
  • 9. Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Origins of the Sovetskii Narod
  • 10. Dismantling “Georgia’s Spiritual Mission”: Sacral Ethnocentrism, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and Primordial Awakenings at the Soviet Collapse
  • 11. New Borders, New Belongings in Central Asia: Competing Visions and the Decoupling of the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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