Enterprising Empires

Romaniello, Matthew P.

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“…Matthew Romaniello's comparison of eighteenth-century Britain and Russia has taken empire in a different direction still. (Romaniello, 2019) Romaniello is acutely interested in borderlands and their populations, but relationships between state and subjects is rather less central to his topic than is economic interaction within and across those borders, as sites of competition for non-European markets. His account looks at economic competition rather than war and diplomacy as a defining feature of the imperial project in that region, a very welcome alternative to that tired old war horse, `the Eastern Question.'…”

Section: Empire State and Rulershipmentioning

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Russia’s Eighteenth Century in Recent US Historiography

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2022

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Eighteenth-century Russian studies in the US has witnessed a number of notable shifts over the past two decades, including a movement away from grand narratives and over-determined teleologies, the emergence of new areas of concentration, new approaches to old questions, and-most significantly-the collapse of the Russia/West antinome in historiography. This article highlights five vectors in which some of the most original work is currently taking place: the multiplicity of blurred boundaries; the place and practices of religions and confessions (Russian Orthodox as well as others); empire as multi-peopled and as state formation; structures of society and lived experiences; and gender. Within each of them the field has seen a resurgence of source-based empirical research, as well as skepticism toward received wisdoms.There has also been a desire to look beyond the metropole and centers of power and to concentrate on experiences far removed from St. Petersburg and Moscow, sometimes in the form of micro-studies, other times in the form of regional or non-Russian outlooks. The essay offers a brief discussion of each of these vectors, identifies some of the most noteworthy scholarship in each, and concludes with some suggestions regarding where the field might go next.

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Section: Empire State and Rulershipmentioning

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Russia’s Eighteenth Century in Recent US Historiography

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2022

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Disentangling commodity histories:pauameand sassafras in the early modern global world

Griffin

2020

Journal of Global History

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This article takes a close look at the history of an American tree now known as sassafras but known to the Timucua of early modern Florida as pauame. Sassafras root was a major anti-febrile medicament in the early modern world. The history of that medicament has thus far primarily been written in terms of the Spanish empire, which commodified it in post-contact Eurasia. Yet Native Americans, in particular the Timucua, as well as the French, the British, and the Russians, all played major roles in the history of sassafras. That history involves several objects derived from the tree sometimes called sassafras, knowledge about those objects, and Eurasian ideas about the Americas. This article focuses on the issues of entangled empires, and commodity and knowledge exchanges, to show that early modern commodities were not unitary objects, but rather shifting entanglements of objects, words, and ideas.

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Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia

Shapiro

2021

Iranian Stud.

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This article provides a biographical vignette of the Armenian merchant and diplomat Eḷia of Erzurum (1689–1750?), based on his unpublished Armenian chronicle and personal documents which are housed in Russian archives. Eḷia’s biography demonstrates the growing influence of European missionaries and states in the eighteenth-century Ottoman and Safavid empires, while his documents yield a fresh perspective on late Safavid diplomacy and modes of socialization with Christians. Eḷia suffered twelve years of imprisonment in Russia and great disappointment seeking work in Europe. His last known act was to write a scathing critique of Roman Catholic religion and culture. In sum, Eḷia’s life provides an opportunity for exploring the dynamic of global connection and disconnection in the early modern Islamic world.

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Enterprising Empires

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Cited by 7 publications

References 90 publications

Russia’s Eighteenth Century in Recent US Historiography

Russia’s Eighteenth Century in Recent US Historiography

Disentangling commodity histories:pauameand sassafras in the early modern global world

Falling Out of Love with the Franks: The Life and Writings of an Armenian Catholic Diplomat in the Service of Late Safavid Persia

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