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Intimate Empire
After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades until 1917. Intimate Empire tells the story of the Mansurovs, who were known to nineteenth-century observers as resourceful imperial agents and staunch supporters of Orthodoxy. In close interplay with scholarship and the media, they built churches and pilgrim hostels to increase Russian dominance within its borders and in the Ottoman Empire. Some of the family's achievements stand to this day: the Russian complex in Jerusalem and an impressive...
Dynasty Divided
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul'hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented socialism. Fabian Baumann shows how these men and women consciously chose a political position and only then began their self-fashioning as members of a national community, defying the notion of nationalism as a direct consequence of ethnicity. Baumann asks what made individuals into determined nationalists in the first p...
When Emancipation Came
Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues on two distinct continents. In this book, readers will find a case-study comparison of the emancipation of Russian serfs on the Yazykovo Selo estate and American slaves at the Palmyra Plantation. Although state policies and reactions may not follow the same paths in each area, there were striking thematic parallels. These findings add to our understanding of what happens throughout an emancipation process in which the state grants freedom, and therefore speaks to the universality of the human experience. Despite the political and economic differences between the two countries, as well as their geographic and cultural distances, this book re-conceptualizes emancipation and its aftermath in each country: from a history that treats each as a separate, self-contained story to one with a unified, global framework.
The Stalin Cult
Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet population and inspired leftist activists around the world. In the first book to examine the cultural products and production methods of the Stalin cult, Jan Plamper reconstructs a hidden history linking artists, party patrons, state functionaries, and ultimately Stalin himself in the alchemical project that transformed a pock-marked Georgian into the embodiment of global communism. Departing from interpretations of the Stalin cult as an outgrowt...
Russian-Arab Worlds
"The Soviet Arabist Kulthum 'Awda-Vasilieva was born in 1892 to Orthodox Christian parents in Nazareth, in Ottoman Palestine. She died in Moscow in 1965, leaving autobiographical writings that help explain how this unwelcome fifth daughter of Palestinian peasants went on to become a distinguished Arabist in the USSR and possibly the first Arab female university professor anywhere. As she tells it in an essay translated in this book, luck played a role: the opening of an Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian acronym IPPO) missionary school in Nazareth in 1885 helped lift a girl her own mother considered "ugly" and lacking prospects into a world of educational opportunities and social a...
Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century
This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world bestsellers. Modern technology accompanied the travelers and adventurers: clocks, a postal and telegraph system, surveying equipment, and cameras. The world grew together faster and faster. Previously unknown places became better known: the highest peaks, the coldest spots, the hottest deserts, and the most remote cities. Knowledge about the white spots of the earth was systematically collected. Those who m...
Emil von Behring 1854–1917
Emil von Behring: Wissenschaftler, Unternehmer, Nobelpreisträger - und eine widersprüchliche Persönlichkeit. Emil von Behring (1854-1917) wurde als Erfinder von Impfstoffen gegen Diphtherie und Tetanus berühmt. Als "Retter der Kinder und Soldaten" feierte ihn die zeitgenössische Presse. 1901 erhielt er den ersten Nobelpreis für Medizin. Anhand bisher unentdeckter Quellen zeichnet Ulrike Enke jenseits aller Heroisierung ein differenziertes Porträt des Arztes und Immunologen. Behring stammte aus armen Verhältnissen; nur dank eines Stipendiums konnte er Medizin studieren. Seine Intelligenz, sein Ehrgeiz und nicht zuletzt seine Fähigkeit, nützliche Netzwerke zu knüpfen, beförderten seinen enormen gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg. Die Autorin zeigt einen Menschen, der als analytischer Kopf bewundert und als Verhandlungspartner gefürchtet wurde. Erstmals ordnet sie Behrings langjährige depressive Erkrankung in die Lebensgeschichte ein. Es entsteht ein neues Bild des Menschen und wegweisenden Forschers, der bis heute als Gründer der Marburger Behringwerke im Gedächtnis geblieben ist.
Kindheit als Privileg
Kindheit war in Europa seit dem 18. Jahrhundert eine Lebensphase, die gesellschaftliche Akteure zunehmend mittels Erziehung gestalteten und als Projektionsfläche für ihre Vorstellungen nutzten. Katharina Kucher bietet in dieser Studie erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte der Kindheit in Russland von der Mitte des 18. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Gestützt auf einen reichen Quellenbestand, der von Gemälden und Fotografien bis hin zu neu ausgewerteten, einzigartigen Archivdokumenten reicht, leistet sie einen innovativen Beitrag zur Kultur- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte, insbesondere des Adels im Zarenreich.
Engineering the Lower Danube
The Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches—the Iron Gates and the delta—not only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense. Since the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans. The inconveni...
Wie man Mikroben auf Reisen schickt
Die Laborpraxis der Bakteriologie war auf eine umfangreiche Logistik angewiesen, um bewegt zu werden. Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen folgt polnischen Medizinerinnen und Medizinern in ihren Bemuhungen, Mikroben im Labor auf Reisen zu schicken. Techniken der Inskription von Laborverfahren sowie die Mobilisierung von vielfaltigen Geratschaften waren dabei von Noten. Die Geschichte der bakteriologischen Wissenszirkulation verbindet polnische Arztinnen und Arzte mit Forschungsinstitutionen von Berlin bis Tunis und integriert sie in eine globale Wissensgeschichte. Gleichzeitig wird hier die Geschichte der Einfuhrung bakteriologischen Wissens in die arztliche Praxis, zunachst im polnischen Konigreich und dann im 1918 gegrundeten polnischen Staat, erzahlt. Die Arbeit wurde im September 2016 mit dem Forderpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik ausgezeichnet.
