'...the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian people...a new paradigm for looking at the imperial history of tsarist Russia' - Ronald Grigor Suny. 'The volume is particularly useful for undergradu...(展开全部)

'...the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian people...a new paradigm for looking at the imperial history of tsarist Russia' - Ronald Grigor Suny. 'The volume is particularly useful for undergradu...(展开全部)

本卷系俄国交通史，因交通史涉及内容较为繁杂，笔者主要向读者阐释彼得一世改革至俄国十月革命期间俄国交通运输发展状况，着重从水路运输、铁路运输和陆路运输等几方面进行分析，并对交通运输对俄国经济的作用进行全面分析，力求全面论述交通运输对俄国工业化和城市化的影响。全书以线性时间为线索，勾勒俄国交通缓慢发展的历程，尤其是水路、铁路和陆路三大主要运输模式的此消彼长的关系，揭示了俄国经济发展的不同侧面。本书资料详实，内容丰富，首次摘取了俄罗斯研究交通运输史方面的文献资料，论述清晰，具有较大的资料参考价值。

本卷系俄国交通史，因交通史涉及内容较为繁杂，笔者主要向读者阐释彼得一世改革至俄国十月革命期间俄国交通运输发展状况，着重从水路运输、铁路运输和陆路运输等几方面进行分析，并对交通运输对俄国经济的作用进行全面分析，力求全面论述交通运输对俄国工业化和城市化的影响。全书以线性时间为线索，勾勒俄国交通缓慢发展的历程，尤其是水路、铁路和陆路三大主要运输模式的此消彼长的关系，揭示了俄国经济发展的不同侧面。本书资料详实，内容丰富，首次摘取了俄罗斯研究交通运输史方面的文献资料，论述清晰，具有较大的资料参考价值。

This book delivers a connected history of imperial margins in Southeast Asia by comparing the British and French geographical policies and practices at the end of the 19th century. It focuses on a time of scramble in Asia: the English incorporated Upper Burma in the Raj after the third Anglo-Burmese war (1885), whereas the French created a protectorate on Annam-Tonkin (the Nort...(展开全部)

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of e...(展开全部)

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of e...(展开全部)

Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere politi...(展开全部)

Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere politi...(展开全部)

We are used to the idea that each state has clearly defined borders, which cleanly separate different nationalities from one another. What, though, were frontiers like before the evolution of the modern nation state? The nine essays in this book seek to answer this question across a thousand years of Eurasian history.