Search for dissertations about: "imperial borderlands"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words imperial borderlands.

  2. 1. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe

    Author : Julia Malitska; Per Bolin; Mark Bassin; Ulla Rosén; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colonization; imperialism; imperial borderlands; German colonists; migration; marriage regime; agency; marriage; household formation; Ukraine; Black Sea steppe; Russian empire; nineteenth century; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Abstract : After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. READ MORE

  4. 2. Constructing Lithuania : Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914

    Author : Vytautas Petronis; Per Bolin Hort; David Gaunt; Theodore R. Weeks; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Russian Empire; Lithuania; Western provinces; Ethnography; Ethnic Mapping; Cartography; Nationalism; 19th century; History; Historia; historia; History;

    Abstract : Up until now the discipline of history has most often used maps as a convenient tool for illustration. Scholars have thus touched only briefly upon the development of maps and their role in the processes underlying the formation of national territories and the establishment of ethnic boundaries. READ MORE