Power and the Politics of Difference Jane Burbank, Associate Professor of History Jane Burbank, Frederick Cooper ... Werth, Paul. At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, ...
Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. "This is the single best book about the relationship of empires and nations that I can think of.
Contra los tópicos de una historia de tradición europea, limitada al marco de las naciones, Burbank y Cooper recorren la evolución de los imperios desde los antiguos de Roma y China hasta sus configuraciones contemporáneas en la Unión ...
Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order.
On these efforts, see Werth, At the Margins of Orthodoxy, 44–73, 96–123. ... An attempt was made to extend these new rules, in a modi¤ed form, to cases of non-Christians wishing to convert to other (non-Orthodox) Christian religions.
23. On the origins of legal reform in the mid - nineteenth century , see Wortman , The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness . Excellent sources for the legal pathos of the early twentieth century are Velikaia reforma ; and Koni ...
"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." —American Historial Review " . . . innovative and substantive research . . . " —The Russian Review ...
In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing together peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequality.