Imperial Order and Nationalism in Contiguous Empires: A Comparative Perspective
Level:
Master's CEU credits:
4 ECTS credits:
8 Academic year:
2009/2010 Academic year:
2010/2011 Academic year:
2011/2012 Semester:
Winter Start and end dates:
9 Jan 2012 - 30 Mar 2012 Co-hosting Unit(s) [if applicable]:
Department of History Stream/Track/Specialization/Core Area:
Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires in History CEU Instructor(s):
Alexei Miller Additional information:
Each lecture is followed by discussion seminar.
The course will help students to place Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in European and global perspectives, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the three historical regions (Central, Eastern, South-Eastern Europe) in a comparative perspective, as well as thorough understanding and critical evaluation of some key concepts and theoretical approaches that are developing in historical studies.
The proportion of time, devoted to particular areas and periods to a large extent depends on the composition of the class. Learning Outcomes:
This course aims at:
- providing students with knowledge of most important recent literature on nationalism in imperial context;
- developing critical understanding of key analytical concepts (empire, nationalism, national and non-national identifications, systems of interaction, etc.) and of most important methodological approaches (comparative approach, situational approach, history of transfers and “entangled histories” perspective)
- developing student’s skills in presentation of their research (using conference format for class presentations)
- developing student’s skills in discussing conflicting methodological approaches
In order to achieve these objectives course combines lectures, which introduce factual material and methodological approaches, with seminars. Seminars include discussion of the most important literature, student presentations of case studies (20 min.), and short (10 min.) presentations of position papers, based on analysis of particular books and articles Assessment :
Requirements - class work, presentation(s) and final paper.
Assessment: 30% - class work (seminar discussion, questions and comments during the lectures)
40% - presentation (s). One presentation (up to 20 min) resembles conference presentations. Topics are usually assigned in relation to student’s MA project or other research interests (to be fixed in discussion between a student and the instructor)
Not only contents, but also form of presentation are evaluated.
Second – brief (up to 10 min.) critical evaluation of 1-2 articles, related to the topic of a particular class.Shows the ability to grasp most important theoretical argument and to evaluate it critically.
30% - Final paper – usually the revised version of the main presentation. The topic is subject to change based on agreement with the instructor. Important is the ability to reflect upon the seminar discussion of the initial presentation and the ability to incorporate new theoretical and factual material from the course into the final product. Full description:
Lectures 1-2. Conceptual framework. Terminology.
Empire, indirect and direct rule; center, core and periphery; colonization and colony; frontiers – borders – borderlands.
Ethnicity, nationalism, identification, loyalty.
Imperial, national and regional historic narratives.
How history of Empire is possible?
The value and the limits of a comparative approach. Entangled histories.
*marks texts, included in the course reader.
Required:
*Terry Martin. The Soviet Union as Empire: Salvaging a Dubious Analytical Category… [
pdf]
*Michael Doyle. Empires. Cornell UP, p.30-47 [ pdf]
* Dominic Lieven. Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals. London: John Murray, 2000, p.3-25, 445-449. [ pdf]
Rogers Brubacker and Fred Cooper. Beyond “identity”. Theory and Society, 2000, #1, p. 1-47 (see also R.Brubaker Ethnicity without Groups…) [ pdf]
Alexey Miller and Alfred J. Rieber. Introduction, in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. Budapest – New York, CEU Press, 2004, pp.1-6. [ pdf]
*A. Miller. Nationalism and Theorists. CEU History Dep. Yearbook. 1996. P. 207-214. [pdf]
A.Miller. Between Local and Inter-Imperial: Russian Imperial History in Search for Scope and Paradigm. Chapter 1 in Romanov: Empire and Nationalism [ pdf]
*A. Miller. The Value and the Limits of A Comparative Approach to the History of Contiguous Empires. [ pdf]
Lectures 3-4. Patterns of Imperial Growth. Imperial Rule before Nationalism. Imperial and Local Elites.
R: *John LeDonne. Core area and frontier. (conference paper) [ pdf]
*Alfred Rieber. Persistent Factors of Russian Foreign Policy: an interpretive essay…
Donald Quartaet. The Ottoman Empire. 1700-1922. Cambridge Univ. Press. , 2000. p. 89—110.
*Hans-Peter Hue. Elites and Imperial Elites in the Habsburg Monarchy. (Conference paper.) [ pdf]
*Andreas Kappeler. Imperial Core and Elites of the Peripheries in the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman Empires. (Conference paper.) [ pdf]
*Stephen Velychenko. “The Size of the Imperial Russian Bureaucracy and Army in Comparative Perspective,” Jahrbücher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, no. 3 (2001) 346-62.[pdf]
Additional reading: John LeDonne. The Russian Empire and the World. N.Y., Oxford. 1997. pp.9-20, 347-362.
Lecture 5. The Social Structures of the Empires. Serfdom order.
Institutions: Army, Church. Religious Communities.
R: *Steven L. Hoch. The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family, and the Social Order. In: Jane Burbank & David Ransel. Imperial Russia… 1998. p.199-209.
Jerome Blum. Lord and Peasant in Russia. Princeton, 1961. pp.367-442, pp.575-621.
Fikret Adanir. Religious Communities and Ethnic Groups under Imperial Sway: Ottoman and Habsburg Lands in Comparison. // Dirk Hoerder et al. (ed.) The Historical Practice of Diversity. Transcultural Interactions from Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World. New York, London, Berghahn Books, 2003, PP.54-86. [ pdf]
Lecture 6. “Orientalism” and Eastern empires.
Two dimensions – self-esteem in dealing with their own “barbarians” and reaction to the Western alienating discourse.
Iver Neumann. Uses of the Other. Chapters “The Turk”, “The Russian Other”
Khalid A. Russian history and the debate over orientalism // Kritika, Bloomington. 2000. New Series - Vol.1, N.4. - p.691-699. [ pdf]
Todorova M. Does Russian orientalism have a Russian soul? A contribution to the debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid // Kritika, Bloomington. 2000. New Series - Vol.1, N.4. - p.717-727. [ pdf ]
*Ussama Makdisi. Ottoman Orientalism. American Historical Review, June 2002, p.768-773. [pdf]
Selim Deringil, “They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery”: the Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2003, #2, p. 311-342 [pdf]
Additional reading: David Cannadine. Ornamentalism. How the British Saw Their Empire. Oxford, Oxford University press, 2001.
Andrzej Walicki. The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Oxford, 1975. pp.394-457
Lecture 7-8. Empires meet nationalism.
Official Nationalisms. Nationalisms of Imperial nations. Nationalisms “from below” – expansionist and isolationist.
Situational analysis: Russian nationalism and competing projects of national homogenization (Western borderland, Ostzee provinces, Volga-Ural region).
Language and identity.
The Macro-System of Contiguous Empires.
R: Eugen Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen. Stanford, 1976. pp.IX-XII, 303-338, 485-496.
A.Miller. Between Local and Inter-Imperial: Russian Imperial History in Search for Scope and Paradigm. Kritika, 2004, #1, p. 5-19.
A.Miller. The Empire and the Nation in the Imagination of Russian Nationalism. In – A.Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [pdf]
*A. Miller. Shaping Russian and Ukrainian Identities in the Russian Empire During the 19th Century: some Methodological Remarks. Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 2001,H.2. [pdf]
*A. Miller. The Value and the Limits of A Comparative Approach to the History of Contiguous Empires. [pdf]
*A.Miller. Russifications: an Attempt at Classification. [pdf]
Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk The Latin and Cyrillic Alphabets in Ukrainian National Discourse and in the Language Policy of Empires. (forthcoming)
Fikret Adanır. Imperial Response to Nationalism: The Ottoman Case. In Henry Cavanna (ed.), Governance, Globalization and the European Union. Which Europe for Tomorrow?, Dublin 2002, pp. 47-66.
Kemal Karpat. The politicization of Islam. Reconstructing identity, state, faith, and community in the late Ottoman State. - Oxford, Oxford univ. press, 2001. p. 276-328.
John-Paul Himka, “The Construction of Nationality in Galician Rus’: Icarian Flights in Almost All Directions,” in Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.), Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2001), 109-169. [pdf]
Ephraim Nimni, “Nationalist Multiculturalism in Late Imperial Austria as a Critique of Contemporary Liberalism: The Case of Bauer and Renner,” Journal of Political Ideologies (1999), 4(3), 289-314. [pdf]
Philipp Ther. “Imperial instead of National History: Positioning Modern German History on the Map of European Empires,” in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. Budapest – New York, CEU Press, 2004, pp. 47-69 [pdf]
Additional reading: Geraci R. P. Window to the East. National and Imperial identities in late Tsarist Russia. - Ithaca; L.: Cornell univ. press, 2001.
Dowler W. Classroom and Empire: The politics of schooling Russia’s eastern nationalities, 1860-1917. - Toronto, McGill-Queen’s univ. press, 2001.
Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities... p. 67-111.
Lecture 9. Meeting challenges of modernity. Mobilized diasporas in modernizing empires.
John A. Armstrong, “Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas”. The American Political Science Review 70 (1976): 393-408. [pdf]
Juri Slezkine. The Jewish Century… ch. 2, 3
*D.Feldman. Was Modernity Good for the Jews? In B. Cheyette and Laura Marcus (eds.) Modernity, Culture and “the Jew”. Cambridge, UK, 1998, p. 171-186. [pdf]
Rieber A.J. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, 1982. pp.415-427
Additional reading: Smuel Eisenstadt, “Multiple Modernities in the Era of Globalization,” Daedalus, vol. 129, No.1, Winter 2000. [ pdf]
Ilya Vinkovetsky. “The Russian-American Company as a Colonial Contractor for the Russian Empire,” in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule… p.163-178.
*Z.Bauman. Allosemitism: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern. In B. Cheyette and Laura Marcus (eds.) Modernity, Culture and “the Jew”. Cambridge, UK, 1998, p. 143-156. [ pdf]
Hans Rogger, “Conclusion and Overview,” in John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza (eds.), Pogroms : Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 314-371.
Lecture 10. Grand Strategies of the Empires.
R: D. Lieven. Empire on Europe’s Periphery: Russian and Western Comparisons. In – A.Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [pdf]
Dominic Lieven. “Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918. Power, Territory, Identity. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 2. (Apr., 1999), p. 165.
Ash T. G. Mitteleuropa? Daedalus, Winter 1990, Vol.119, №1 P.1-21.
Paul W. Schroeder. Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War. The Destruction of the European Concert. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1972, pp. 392-427. [pdf]
Additional reading: Dominic Lieven. Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals. London: John Murray, 2000,
John LeDonne. The Russian Empire and the World. N.Y., Oxford. 1997.
Lecture 11-12. The opening of political system in the early XX century. WWI, the collapse of the “old regime”, revolutions and counter-revolutions. The role of ethnicity and nationalisms.
Fikret Adanir and Hilmar Kaiser. Migration, Deportation and Nation-Building: The Case of the Ottoman Empire // René Leboutte (ed.) Migrations and Migrants in Historical Perspective. Permanencies and Innovations. Florence, P.I.E – Peter Lang S.A., Brussels, 2000, P. 273-292, esp. 279-281. [pdf]
Eric Lohr. Nationalizing the Russian Empire, p. 1-9, 84-94 [pdf - all 245 pages]
*Alexei Miller. A Testament of the All-Russian Idea: Foreign Ministry Memoranda to the Imperial, Provisional and Bolshevik Governments. In: Seifert M. (ed.) extending the borders of Russian History
Lecture 13. Making the USSR: “the Empire of affirmative action” or “the communal apartment”? What is left of Empires?
R: Max Engman. Consequences of Dissolving an Empire: the Habsburg and Romanov Cases. Studia Baltica Stockholmiensia, 13, 1994. P.21-34 [pdf]
Terry Martin. The affirmative Action Empire. Cornell UP, 2001, p.1-27, [pdf] 376-393. [pdf]
*Juri Slezkine. The USSR as a Communal Appartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism. // Slavic Review, 53, 2 (Summer 1994) pp.414-452. [pdf]
Ronald Grigor Sunny, “The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, “National” Identity, and Theories of Empire” in Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin (eds.) A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Norman Stone et al. The Russians and the Turks: Imperialism and Nationalism in the Era of Empires. In: A.Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [pdf - 2nd part]
Additional new materials will be provided via e-mail during the course