New Imperial History. POST-Soviet historiography in search of a new paradigm for the history of empire and nationalism1

Mogilner, Marina

doi:10.4074/s0338059914002022

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“…In his fundamental study The Habsburg Empire: A New History, Pieter Judson (2018) includes only a marginal amount of science and scholarship, concentrating on the social processes of managing multiculturality in an empire in which differences increasingly shaped politics. By contrast, A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, a research programme developed around the journal Ab Imperio, includes numerous statements about universities and academies of science, and it deals extensively with historiography and raciology (Mogilner 2014). Its authors also note the growing scientification of politics in the second half of the 19th century, proceeding through the inclusion of academically educated economists and political scientists, as well as the growing influence of racial, anthropological, and sociological ideas.…”

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

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Imperial Science in Central and Eastern Europe

Surman

2022

Histories

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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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The Science of Empire: Darwinism, Human Diversity, and Russian Physical Anthropology

Mogilner

2020

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Summary: The article explores deployment of the Darwinian narrative of the “natural history of humanity” in Russian physical anthropology in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It traces two narratives developed by the leading Russian school of physical anthropology: one narrative advanced a universalist vision of collective scholarly enterprise working toward clarifying the missing links in the a priori accepted developmental evolutionary model. The other constructed a new language that undermined the idea of species/subspecies/races/nations/ as stable, externally bounded, and internally homogeneous units and attempted to rationalize imperial hybridity. The article's main focus is on the latter classificatory narrative, its relational methodology, and the protostructuralist units of comparison that it produced.

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