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"On the basis of the work presented here, one can say that the future of American scholarship on imperial Russia is in good hands." American Historial Review

..". innovative and substantive research... " The Russian Review

"Anyone wishing to understand the 'state of the field' in Imperial Russian history would do well to start with this collection." Theodore W. Weeks, H-Net Reviews

"The essays are impressive in terms of research conceptualization, and analysis." Slavic Review

Presenting the results of new research and fresh approaches, the historians whose work is...

..". will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal history." --Cathy A. Frierson

..". a major contribution to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal development in late Imperial Russia." --William G. Wagner

Russian Peasants Go to Court brings into focus the legal practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905 through 1917. Contrary to prevailing conceptions of peasants as backward, drunken, and ignorant, and as...

Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired...

Empires--vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition--have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China and continuing across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine empires' conquests, rivalries, and strategies of domination--with an emphasis on how empires accommodated, created, and...