عنوان

'Our Dear Kazan': Urban Initiatives and Imperial Legacies, 1774-1860

Number

TL49526

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

'Our Dear Kazan': Urban Initiatives and Imperial Legacies, 1774-1860

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Eric Johnson

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Campbell, Elena I.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Washington

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

419

Text of Note

Committee members: Dhavan, Purnima; Young, Glennys

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-12054-7

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

University of Washington

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation offers an early-nineteenth-century urban history of Kazan, a provincial capital located on the Volga River in the Russian heartland. Kazan was a city that encapsulated the Russian Empire in microcosm. Its past was colorful, dominated by the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan by the Muscovite army of Ivan IV in 1552. In the centuries that followed, it developed into a prosperous and celebrated provincial center, marked by rich ethnic, religious, and social diversity (encompassing Muslim Tatars, Orthodox Russians, German Lutherans, and "Old Believer" Orthodox dissenters, among others). It was linked into transnational trade routes and far-flung networks of European and Islamic intellectual exchange, and increasingly independent from the cultural and economic hegemony of the capitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow. This project chooses Kazan as the ideal site to explore empire at the small-scale. It moves the bureaucrats and their edicts to the wings of the stage, in order to foreground the political, social, intellectual, and imaginative engagements of non-state actors-thereby re-conceptualizing empire as a web of relationships between imperial subjects and communities.

European history; Slavic Studies; Russian history

Subject Term

Social sciences;19th century;Civil society;Confessional relations;Local study;Russian empire;Urban history

Ouassini, Nabil

Campbell, Elena I.

Subdivision

History

University of Washington

Call Number

1943998907; 10286397

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[Thesis]

276903

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