Description
Picturing Russian Empire offers a new way to approach the history of Russia as an empire and as a state located in a world characterized by a churning, dynamic exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It presents readers with a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times in more than a millennium of history. Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, Picturing Russian Empire consistently raises big historical questions to stimulate readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire. The authors challenge the reader to not only to see images as the creations of individuals, but as objects circulating among viewers in a variety of contexts, creating new impressions, meanings, and experiences.
About the Author
Valerie Kivelson is the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Author of several books on medieval Russia, including Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006). Sergei Kozlov is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Tyumen (Russia). Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of several books on modern Russian history, including This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell University Press, 2019).
Reviews
Picturing Russian Empire is a wonderfully original volume that is a welcome addition to the pedagogical tools we use to introduce students to Russia's empires. The book's paramount advantage lies in its much-needed presentation of tangible artifacts that bring ostensibly distant, perhaps abstract, topics closer to the students. This visual representation of Russian history enables students to appreciate, understand, and critique the narratives they have grown accustomed to analyzing from printed sources"- Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M University
Picturing Russian Empire's strengths include innovative ways of thinking about Russian/Eurasian history and its breadth of coverage and scholarship. The text is comprehensive and accessible, with helpful discussions about how to analyze visual sources in historical research."- Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College
This is a uniquely comprehensive and rich survey of more than a millennium of Russian history that makes use of visual images and their explication by expert specialists to give students and other readers a compelling perspective on the richness and complexity of that country's society and its experiences. While it would serve as an excellent complement to any existing textbook, it can serve as a text in its own right, by prompting discussion that the instructor can use to expand on or situate critical junctures or interpretative questions in Russian history."- David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a rich, multi-faceted overview of the visual, non-verbal traditions and representations of the Russian empire, starting from the Kievan Rus', ending with the current realities of the Russian Federation. Taken together, the chapters explore the issues of identity, power, homogeneity, agency, reality, and perceptions in an accessible, yet thoroughly analytical way."- Natalie Bayer, Drake University
Picturing Russian Empire offers more than fifty essays written by scholars of history, film, literature, and art that together offer a guided visual tour of the peoples, landscapes, dilemmas, relationships, representations, and worlds of Russia's empires. * The Russian Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197600528
Author Valerie Kivelson
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1202g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 226mm * 53mm
About the Author
Valerie Kivelson is the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Author of several books on medieval Russia, including Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013) and Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2006). Sergei Kozlov is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Tyumen (Russia). Joan Neuberger is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of several books on modern Russian history, including This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell University Press, 2019).
Reviews
Picturing Russian Empire is a wonderfully original volume that is a welcome addition to the pedagogical tools we use to introduce students to Russia's empires. The book's paramount advantage lies in its much-needed presentation of tangible artifacts that bring ostensibly distant, perhaps abstract, topics closer to the students. This visual representation of Russian history enables students to appreciate, understand, and critique the narratives they have grown accustomed to analyzing from printed sources"- Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M University
Picturing Russian Empire's strengths include innovative ways of thinking about Russian/Eurasian history and its breadth of coverage and scholarship. The text is comprehensive and accessible, with helpful discussions about how to analyze visual sources in historical research."- Shoshana Keller, Hamilton College
This is a uniquely comprehensive and rich survey of more than a millennium of Russian history that makes use of visual images and their explication by expert specialists to give students and other readers a compelling perspective on the richness and complexity of that country's society and its experiences. While it would serve as an excellent complement to any existing textbook, it can serve as a text in its own right, by prompting discussion that the instructor can use to expand on or situate critical junctures or interpretative questions in Russian history."- David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a rich, multi-faceted overview of the visual, non-verbal traditions and representations of the Russian empire, starting from the Kievan Rus', ending with the current realities of the Russian Federation. Taken together, the chapters explore the issues of identity, power, homogeneity, agency, reality, and perceptions in an accessible, yet thoroughly analytical way."- Natalie Bayer, Drake University
Picturing Russian Empire offers more than fifty essays written by scholars of history, film, literature, and art that together offer a guided visual tour of the peoples, landscapes, dilemmas, relationships, representations, and worlds of Russia's empires. * The Russian Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197600528
Author Valerie Kivelson
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1202g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 226mm * 53mm
