Imperial Biographies Revisited

Rolf, Malte; Tondera, Benedikt

doi:10.25162/jgo-2020-0010

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“…The state figures prominently in imperial historiography in yet another way. It was a space of careering, facilitating not only travel but also more durable engagements (Rolf and Tondera 2020). Imperial institutions often sent their envoys across the country to produce maps (Gibson 2022;Petronis 2007;Seegel 2012) or to count (Darrow 2002; Göderle 2016;Skrydlov 2020), as well as to search for resources, collect specimens, and fulfill other tasks and other works by the author).…”

Section: Multinational or Imperial: An Empire's Two Bodies?mentioning

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Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Surman

2022

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The history of imperial science has been a growing topic over recent decades. Overviews of the imperial history of science have rarely included the Russian, Habsburg, and German empires. The history of Central and Eastern Europe has embraced empire as an analytical and critical category only recently, having previously pursued national historiographies and romanticised versions of imperial pasts. This article highlights several key narratives of imperial sciences in Central and Eastern Europe that have appeared over the past twenty years, especially in anglophone literature. Interdependence between national and imperial institutions and biographies, the history of nature as an interplay of scales, and finally, the histories of imagining a path between imperialism and nationalism, demonstrate how the history of imperial science can become an important part of the discussion of Central European history from a global perspective, as well as how the history of science can be factored into the general history of this region. Finally, I argue that the imperial history of science can play an important role in re-thinking the post/decolonial history of Central and Eastern Europe, an issue that, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has become the centre of intellectual attention.

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Section: Multinational or Imperial: An Empire's Two Bodies?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Surman

2022

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Imperial Biographies Revisited

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