Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Historical Context: Armenians and the Russian Empire, 2. The Politics of Historicism in National Identity Formation, 3. Step`anos Nazaryan: Biography and Early Works, 4. Step`anos Nazaryan’s Pioneering Journal: Hyusisap‘ayl [Northern Lights] Monthly, 1858-1864, 5. “Our Rose-Colored Glasses … Have Fallen from Our Eyes”: Historicism and the Cultivation of a Modern Eastern Armenian Identity, 6. Locating Armenia through the Human and Social Sciences: Travel Literature, Demography, Philology, Ethnography, and Local History, Conclusion, Selected Bibliography, Index