Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia - The Periodical Press and the Formation of a Modern Armenian Identity

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Khachaturian Klappentext Nineteenth-century Armenia was a zone of competition between the Persian! Ottoman! and the Russian Empires. This work seeks to explain how this divided society managed to achieve a common cultural bond. It also reviews how nineteenth-century Armenian intellectuals discussed and conceived of the nation through the formation of the Armenian press. Zusammenfassung Nineteenth-century Armenia was a zone of competition between the Persian, Ottoman, and the Russian Empires Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Historical Context: Armenians and the Russian Empire, 2. The Politics of Historicism in National Identity Formation, 3. Step`anos Nazaryan: Biography and Early Works, 4. Step`anos Nazaryan’s Pioneering Journal: Hyusisap‘ayl [Northern Lights] Monthly, 1858-1864, 5. “Our Rose-Colored Glasses … Have Fallen from Our Eyes”: Historicism and the Cultivation of a Modern Eastern Armenian Identity, 6. Locating Armenia through the Human and Social Sciences: Travel Literature, Demography, Philology, Ethnography, and Local History, Conclusion, Selected Bibliography, Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lisa Khachaturian
• Con la collaborazione di: Lisa Khachaturian (Editore), Khachaturian Lisa (Editore)
• Editore: Transaction Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.2009
• EAN: 9781412808484
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0848-4
• Pagine: 320
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Teorie politiche e storia delle idee; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; 20th Century, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Armenia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999