Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals, and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian Seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Sla...(展开全部)

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

作者简介 阿尔弗雷德•考尔德科特，享有世界声誉的英国哲学家、史学家，剑桥大学道德科学协会奠基人，伦敦国王学院逻辑与精神哲学协会主席、伦敦国王学院院长。从1896年到1898年，他被聘为维多利亚女王的御讲。在不到三年的时间里，他为维多利亚女王系统地讲述了英国的殖民史。 译者简介 周亚莉，女，甘肃西和人。1996年毕业于西北师范大学外语系英语教育专业，获文学学士学位并留校任教。2006年毕业于西北师范大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业（翻译理论与实践方向），获文学硕士学位。2007年晋升副教授。2008年被遴选为硕士研究生导师。2014年毕业于西北师范大学教育学院课程与教学论专业（英语教学论方向），获教育学博士学位，同年晋升教授。2008年赴新西兰奥克兰大学访问学习。2011年赴英国朴茨茅斯大学访问学习。先后在《中国翻译》《甘肃社会科学》等期刊发表学术论文...(展开全部)

Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'poli...(展开全部)

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not on...(展开全部)

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,...(展开全部)

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom,...(展开全部)