The Russian Empire 1450-1801

Zusatztext this masterpiece will accompany us for years to come. It is a gift given to the entire spectrum of people engaging with Russian history -- from the public to the specialists -- by a scholar most intimately with the sources as well as the scholarship. Informationen zum Autor Nancy Kollmann has taught early modern Russian history at Stanford University since 1982. Her research has focused on the problem of how politics worked in an autocratic state; she has studied how the great men of the Moscow court received and enhanced their political positions through marriage and kinship, how the tsar's government supported litigations over personal honor for all social groups as a means of social integration and how criminal law was applied in practice. She has also focused on the image of Russia conveyed to Europeans in contemporary engravings, maps, and books. Klappentext Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions. Zusammenfassung Russia's imperial past has shaped modern Russian identity and historical experience. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys the empire's emergence and governance, exploring how the state maintained control of defense, criminal law, taxation, and mobilization of resources, while tolerating local religions, languages, cultures, and institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Shields Kollmann, Nancy Shields (William H. Bonsall Profes Kollmann, Kollmann Nancy Shields
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9780199280513
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928051-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 243 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Oxford History of Early Modern Europe; Oxford History of Early Modern
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History; Russland, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Russia / General