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Book SynopsisIn 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 1 Describing Imperial Space  1 Advertising Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  2 Chorographies of Imperial Space  3 Text Formats  3.1 Dagregister  3.2 Chronicle  3.3 List  3.4 Anecdote  4 Coherence through Authorial Voice  5 Alternative Entries 2 Lobbying for a Bible Translation in ‘Low’ Malay  1 Varieties of Malay  2 The Controversy over the Malay Bible Translation  3 Lobbying  4 The Question of the Malay Translation of the Bible in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  5 Epilogue 3 The Valentyn Case Scholarly Authorship at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century  1 The Location of Ophir as an Antiquarian Question  2 Valentyn’s Use of Rumphius’s Kruid-boek  3 A Stricter Scholarly Decorum  4 Collaborators  5 Valentyn’s Authorship Part 2 4 Natural History for liefhebbers in Valentyn’s Description of Animals from Amboina  1 An Audience of Liefhebbers  2 Images of Tropical Fish  3 Shells  4 A Rhetoric of Probability  4.1 Birds of Paradise  4.2 Sea-People  5 Herpetological Knowledge and Indigenous Collaborators  6 Repackaging East Indies Natural History 5 ‘Dutch Power in Those Territories’ Historical Representation in Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  1 Chronicles of Conquest  2 Asian Histories  2.1 Sinhalese Histories  2.2 Malay Histories  2.3 Mughal Histories  3 Framing Dutch Hegemony  3.1 Ancients and Moderns  3.2 Martial Batavians  3.3 Staging Jan Pieterszoon Coen as a Hero  4 The Circulation of Valentyn’s Master Narrative 6 Antiquarian Ambonese Valentyn’s Comparative Ethnography and Ethnology  1 A Comparative Methodology  2 ‘Foolish Thoughts’  3 ‘Any That Pisseth against the Wall’  4 Pelimao’s Defence 7 ‘This Business of Our Nation’ The Questionable Conduct of the Dutch in Japan  1 Japan, Christianity and the Dutch  2 Valentyn’s Representation of Japan  3 New Information about Japan  4 The Abject Behaviour of the Dutch in Japan  5 Onno Zwier van Haren’s Recherches 8 ‘Waste Land’ into ‘Earthly Paradise’ The Geography of the Cape of Good Hope  1 The Cape Colony around 1700  2 Employing a Dutch Landscape Discourse  3 Expeditions into the Interior  4 Two Geographies of the Cape Part 3 9 A Paper Empire Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën as a Reference Work  1 A Tool for voc Bewindhebbers in the Netherlands  2 A Resource for voc Administrators in the East Indies  3 The Restoration of Dutch Rule in 1816  4 New Policies for Amboina  5 ‘Valentyn’ Becomes ‘Valentijn’  6 A New Edition of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën  7 A Paper Empire  Conclusion Appendix The Text Organisation of Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën References Index

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Book SynopsisBased upon a sweeping command of Dutch East India Company (VOC) primary sources, Knaap’s manuscript offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the Dutch Republic’s overseas and colonial expansion in Asia and South Africa, mainly through the VOC and its successors, the Batavian Republic, the Kingdom of Holland and Franco-Dutch Java, over a period of more than two centuries, 1596-1811. It elucidates and deals with several conceptual and theoretical issues that are intrinsically important and germane to a polity’s definition of and how it chooses to execute the process of expansion overseas in the early modern period. One of this work’s major arguments and contributions is its advocacy that the Dutch VOC’s expansion in Asia was an imperial project and must be seen as an act of empire, or, at the very minimum, the attempt to construct one via the innovative utilization of a highly organized and dynamic commercial institution with significant political and diplomatic power and naval and military resources.Table of ContentsExpansion in History Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements List of Maps List of Illustrations Glossary and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Prelude to Empire  1 A Young Nation Ready for Ocean-Going Expansion  2 Proto-Companies on the Way to Asia  3 Proto-Companies on the Road to Unity  4 The VOC in a European Context  5 Conclusion 2 Foundation of Empire  1 The VOC’s Role in Asia According to the Instructions Issued to the Admirals  2 The First Admirals: War, Success and Stagnation  3 Governor-General Pieter Both, His Instruction and the Twelve Years’ Truce  4 Coen’s First Term of Office: Batavia, the English, Banda, the Iberians  5 Coen Back Home and His Second Term of Office in the Empire  6 Conclusion 3 Expansion of Empire  1 Van Diemen against Portugal: Blockades, Sieges, Conquests  2 Gunboat Diplomacy, Special Theatres of War, Remote Places  3 Endgame with Portugal: Ceylon, Malabar and Other Theatres of War  4 Difficulties with the English and the French  5 The Cloves Secured: Amboina  6 The Cloves Secured: Maluku  7 Formosa Won and Lost  8 Finale in the Eastern Archipelago: Makassar  9 Ceylon: Van Goens’ War against Kandy and Other Troubles  10 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Mataram  11 Breaking out of Bridgehead Batavia: Intervention in Bantam  12 Conclusion 4 Consolidation of Empire  1 Consolidation versus Intervention  2 The First Two Javanese Succession Wars  3 In the Northern Arabian Sea: Slow Retreat from a Far Periphery  4 The VOC in Malabar: From Strength to Weakness  5 The Chinese Massacre in Batavia and the Chinese War in Mataram  6 The High Government between Factionalism and Reform  7 The Third Javanese War of Succession and the Division of Mataram  8 Problems in the Eastern Archipelago: Wajo, Gowa, Timor and Tidore  9 Problems at Java’s Western and Eastern Fringes  10 Problems in the Malakka Straits and Expansion in Borneo  11 Dutch Hegemony in Ceylon Secured: The War with Kandy  12 European Confrontations: The French and the Ostendeners  13 European Confrontations: The Seven Years’ War  14 Conclusion 5 Demise of Empire  1 The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War  2 Further Problems in Malabar, the Malakka Straits, Borneo and Tidore  3 New Initiatives for a Better Defence  4 Revolution in Europe  5 The First British Assault  6 The Peace of Amiens and the Resumption of Hostilities  7 Marshall Daendels in Java  8 The Second British Assault, the End of Dutch Empire  9 Conclusion 6 The Empire’s Naval and Army Personnel  1 Recruitment of Personnel in the Netherlands and Europe  2 From the Netherlands to the East and Back  3 Conditions of the Military Men and the Sailors after Arrival in the East  4 Temporary Armed Forces: Civilian Militias, the Amboinese Hongi and Others  5 Armed Personnel Recruited in the East  6 Primary Labour Conditions of Military Men and Sailors  7 Statistics of the Armed Personnel of the Empire  8 Quality and Costs of Armed Forces’ Personnel  9 Conclusion 7 The Empire’s Ships, Fortifications and Weapons  1 Ships Built in the Netherlands  2 Shipbuilding and Repairs in the East  3 Dutch Naval Power in the East  4 Fortifications: Necessity for the Empire  5 Fortifications: Construction, Maintenance, Classification  6 Heavy Fire-Arms: Artillery at Sea and Ashore  7 Portable Weaponry: Proximity and Short Distance Weapons  8 Projectiles, Gunpowder and Other Military Requirements  9 Costs of Ships, Fortifications and Weaponry  10 Conclusion 8 The Empire’s Voyages, Garrisons and Military Practices  1 Outward- and Homeward-Bound Voyages  2 In the Capital of Empire: Batavia  3 In Other Garrison Towns  4 In the Far Periphery  5 Expeditions at Sea and on the Coast  6 Expeditions on Land  7 Landscapes of Foes and Friends of the Empire  8 Genocidal Behaviour  9 Imperial Decision Makers: A Proto-Civil Service  10 Conclusion 9 The First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East: Empire among Empires  1 European Colonial Powers Surrounding the Indian Ocean  2 Characteristics of the First Dutch Colonial Empire in the East  3 The Dutch Colonial Empire and the Great Asian Empires  4 The Military Revolutions of the Early Modern Era  5 Conclusion Epilogue Statistics  Table 1: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, five year intervals  Table 2: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to rank  Table 3: Seamen and military men in the VOC empire, 1760, according to province  Table 4: The fleet of the VOC in its empire  Table 5: Fortifications of the VOC per category, circa 1790, according to province  Table 6: Weapons of the VOC according to category, circa 1790 Sources and Literature  Nationaal Archief, Abbreviated NA, The Hague  Printed Sources, Monographs and Articles Index

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Book SynopsisImagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took — and continues to take — mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities.Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsII List of IllustrationsII Introduction: Imagined Racial Laboratories in Southeast Asia  Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque 1 Bilibid and Beyond: Race, Body Size, and the Native in Early American Colonial Philippines  Francis A. Gealogo 2 The Colonial Ethnological Line: Timor and the Racial Geography of the Malay Archipelago  Ricardo Roque 3 ‘Their Indonesian Forefathers’: Indonesia as the Austronesian Homeland in German-Language Theories of Ancient Pacific Migrations  Hilary Howes 4 Racialization in the Malay Archipelago during the Asia-Pacific War  Sandra Khor Manickam 5 Mixed Messages. Racial Science and Local Identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39  Fenneke Sysling 6 ‘The Salvational Currents of Emigration’: Racial Theories and Social Disputes in the Philippines at the end of the Nineteenth Century  Florentino Rodao 7 The Mestizos of Kisar: An Insular Racial Laboratory in the Malay Archipelago  Hans Pols and Warwick Anderson 8 Race as a Religious Destiny: The Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina  Janet Alison Hoskins Afterword: A Prelude  Bronwen Douglas Index

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Book SynopsisEn Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez ofrece un estudio histórico y comparativo de corte trasatlántico sobre 48 cofradías de afrodescendientes del periodo colonial y del presente, localizadas en zonas geográficas clave de España, Perú, México y República Dominicana. ***** In Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez offers a historical and comparative trans-Atlantic study about 48 confraternities of African descendants of the colonial period and the present, which emerged in key geographical regions of Spain, Perú, México, and the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"This encyclopedic study of organizations led and founded by Africans and their descendants in the broader Ibero-American world starts with the medieval origins of these groups and carries their stories through to the present day. A timely, sweeping book which synthesizes decades of vibrant scholarship on African diaspora lives, cultures, and beliefs, this engaging work brings together many strands in an expansive geographic overview ranging from Spain to Peru. Readers seeking insights on the complex mesh of African and Catholic spirituality and practices will consult this book for years to come." — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University "Este estudio enciclopédico de organizaciones dirigidas y fundadas por africanos y sus descendientes en el mundo iberoamericano comienza con los orígenes medievales de estos grupos y lleva sus historias hasta la actualidad. Un libro oportuno y exhaustivo que sintetiza décadas de vibrantes estudios sobre las vidas, culturas y creencias de la diáspora africana, esta atractiva obra reúne muchas vertientes en un amplio panorama geográfico que va desde España hasta Perú. Los lectores que busquen información sobre el complejo entramado de la espiritualidad y las prácticas africanas y católicas consultarán este libro durante años". — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University “Cofradías Afrohispánicas is a solid, academic work, properly documented, aware of and interacting with recent scholarship, showing detailed knowledge of primary sources and demonstrating mastery of the subject. The author’s transhistorical approach is innovative. The study brings together geographies not normally considered alongside each other. Its contribution to the field of confraternal studies is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach and the rewards such an approach can yield.” — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis "Cofradías Afrohispánicas es una obra sólida y académica, debidamente documentada, que está al tanto de investigaciones recientes e interactúa con ellas, mostrando un conocimiento detallado de las fuentes primarias y demostrando dominio del tema. El enfoque transhistórico del autor es innovador. El estudio reúne geografías que normalmente no se consideran juntas. Su contribución al campo de los estudios cofradieros es demostrar la viabilidad de un nuevo enfoque y las recompensas que tal enfoque puede producir." — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. LuisTable of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones y cuadros Abreviaturas y siglas Introducción 1 Etnicidades en transformación: Diáspora y reencuentro  1 Por el reino de Kalunga: mercado esclavista hacia el Nuevo Mundo  2 Denominaciones: la mirada colonial  3 Cofradías y afrocastas  4 Cristianización y represión de las idolatrías  5 Reconfiguración de identidades  6 Raza, etnicidad e identidad cultural  7 Conclusiones 2 El barroco afrocatólico: Cofradías españolas, siglos XVI–XVII  1 Las cofradías étnicas. ópera crítica  2 Cofradía, fiesta y ritual: danzas, música y comparsas afrosevillanas del siglo XVII  3 Cofradías afrosevillanas  4 La Hermandad de los mulatos de Sevilla  5 Cofradía del rosario de morenos de Cádiz  6 Cofradías de negros y mulatos de Granada, siglo XVI  7 Conclusiones 3 Cofradías afroperuanas: Representaciones de raza, casta, nación e identidad cultural, siglos XVI y XVII  1 Primeras cofradías afroperuanas, siglo XVI  2 Cofradía, casta y diferencia racial  3 Cofradía y nación étnica, siglo XVI  4 Cofradía de los Reyes, de castas jolofe y bran  5 Cofradía de congos de la Virgen del Rosario, Convento de Santo Domingo, 1575–1813  6 Cofradía de San Bartolomé de negros de casta Loango  7 Cofradía de San Antón de morenos libres, Parroquia de San Marcelo, 1581  8 Integración y resistencia furtiva. Cofradías afroperuanas del siglo XVII  9 El barroco afroamericano y la fiesta del Corpus Christi en Cuzco y Lima  10 Conclusiones 4 Cofradías afromexicanas: Devoción barroca y resistencia furtiva, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Insurrecciones de esclavos, palenques y disolución de las cofradías de nación africana  2 Historia, cultura y vida cotidiana de las cofradías coloniales afromexicanas, siglos XVII–XVIII  3 San Benito de Palermo y sus cofradías  4 Cofradía de nuestra señora de las angustias de morenos criollos  5 De negros y mulatos a morenos y pardos: el caso de la Cofradía de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo  6 Morenos y mulatos de la cofradía de San Nicolás de Tolentino y Monte Calvario  7 Economía de la fiesta patronal  8 Puebla de los Ángeles: cofradías de afrodescendientes y asiáticos en el siglo XVII  9 Afropoblanos libres en las cofradías  10 Los primeros chinos poblanos y su cofradía  11 Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación de negros y mulatos, Templo de la Concordia  12 Bailes y ceremonias: de la censura a la transformación  13 Conclusiones 5 Cofradías afrodominicanas: Historia y religiosidad popular, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Resistencia furtiva y criollización  2 Cofradías afrodominicanas del periodo colonial  3 Los negros criollos, la identidad y la cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 Cofradía de San Cosme y San Damián, los marasa, ibeji o mapasa  5 San Lorenzo de los Mina: refugio de cimarrones haitianos  6 Cofradías de Congos del Espíritu Santo  7 Conclusiones 6 El mito y la danza: Patrimonio intangible de las cofradías afrohispánicas contemporáneas  1 Cofradía de Congos del Espíritu Santo de Villa Mella  2 La Veintiuna División: una variante del VodoÚ de Haití  3 La Sarandunga de la Cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 La Cofradía de los Negros de Sevilla: el presente blanco de un pasado negro  5 Danzas de Negritos, Panalivio y Marinera: música y bailes afroperuanos  6 Cofradías afroperuanas de Lima y Chincha  7 El Carmen, su cofradía y sus danzas  8 La Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros de Lima  9 Cofradía y celebración a San Nicolás de Tolentino en la Costa Chica mexicana 7 La cofradía afrohispánica como agencia de transformación cultural  1 Mayorales y mayordomos  2 Corporativismo, clase social y economía en las cofradías coloniales, 1767–1804  3 Una cofradía colonial en la Costa Chica de México  4 La cofradía afrohispánica: del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente  5 Reflexiones finales: Resistencia, identidad cultural, eurocentrismo y descolonización Apéndice: Transcripciones de archivo histórico Bibliografía Índice

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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Book SynopsisMaking Russians is an innovative study dealing with Russian nationalities policy in Lithuania and Belarus in the aftermath of the 1863 Uprising. The book devotes most attention to imperial confessional and language policy, for in Russian discourse at that time it was religion and language that were considered to be the most important criteria determining nationality. The account of Russian nationalities policy presented here differs considerably from the assessments usually offered by historians from east-central Europe primarily because the author provides a more subtle description of the aims of imperial nationalities policy, rejecting the claim that the Russian authorities consistently sought to assimilate members of other national groups. At the same time the interpretation this study offers opens a discussion with western and Russian historians, especially those, who lay heavy emphasis on discourse analysis. This study asserts that the rhetoric of officials and certain public campaigners was influenced by a concept of political correctness, which condemned all forms of ethnic denationalisation. A closer look at the implementation of discriminatory policy allows us to discern within Russian imperial policy more attempts to assimilate or otherwise repress the cultures of non-dominant national groups than it is possible to appreciate simply by analysing discourse alone.Trade Review“Making Russians offers an intriguing insight into the nationalities policies of the late tsarist period. The argument is well constructed and the research is superb. … Staliūnas offers an interesting analysis for those interested in Lithuania, Russifi cation and minority integration yesterday, today and tomorrow.” - in: The Slavonic and East European Review 89.4 (October 2011) “This monograph is a work of model scholarship and an outstanding example of the new international school of the study of the practice and lived experience of tsarist rule in the empire’s borderlands.” - in: Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte Band 6 (2011) “important … illustrated with excellent photographs … a significant contribution to the studies of imperial politics” - in: PINKAS – Culture and History of East European Jewry, Vol III, 2010 “Making Russians is an exceptionally soundly written monograph, one based on unique source materials and one that significantly enriches the existing works on the process of Russification” - in: Acta Poloniae Historica “Darius Staliunas’s book has much to recommend it. It is thoroughly researched, with extensive use of Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish archival sources … The introduction provides a detailed and highly useful of the historiography of the use of Russification and “national policies” - in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 11.2 (Spring 2010) "Il libro rappresenta uno dei più importanti risultati della recente storiografia sul-l’Impero russo" - in: Russica Romana, Volume XVI, 2009 "[Staliunas‘ book] provides more [information] on the period when Lithuanian and Belarusian territories were under the rule of the Russian Empire and shows a high methodological level of the contemporary Lithuanian historiography." - in: Ukraina Moderna “Die englische Übersetzung […] erlaubt einen Blick in Details, die sonst nur in den landessprachlichen Veröffentlichungen der Region verfolgbar wären. Das Werk setzt zugleich durch seine weit gefasste und konsequent verfolgte Fragestellung einen mächtigen Stein in den Bogen eines neuen Verständnisses der russischen Nationalitätenpolitik im Zarenreich.” - in: NORDEUROPAforum 1/2009 “(…) it‘s worth reading „Making Russians“. And in order to widen the audience one should think about translating it [into Belarusian].” - in: Belarusian Historical Review 16.1 (2009) "Staliunas has written an important book on nineteenth century imperial politics. Above all, it demonstrates how a differentiated view of administrative conceptions and measures can illuminate differences between central and provincial governments, while also helping to explain the generalized failure of imperial policies and their contribution to national mobilization in the late Tsarist empire." - in: Journal of Baltic Studies 29.3 (September 2008) “construct[s] a new angle in a rather cultivated field, i.e. Russification and Imperial policy towards Lithuanians in the second half of the nineteenth century …“innovative… presents a new perception in the historiography of nationalism.” - in: Lithuanian Historical Studies 13 (2008) „Insgesamt betrachtet, stellt das Werk aber eine große Hilfe für das Verständnis der durch zahlreiche Stolperfallen gekennzeichneten vormodernen russländischen Nationalitätenpolitik dar.“ - in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas Band 57 (2009), 1 “Staliūnas’s Making Russians is a path-breaking monograph in understanding aspects of russification, the variety of attitudes and related policy toward different languages, the shifts in nationality, linguistic and religious particularities, and marginal or forgotten ideas. All this is what makes Staliūnas’s book a bible for a scholar—no serious scholarship in the field can escape consulting it hereafter.” - Giedrius Subačius, in: Archivum Lithuanicum 10 (2008) "Staliunas gives us a detailed, careful analysis of the making of Russian policy … this study offers an interesting examination of Russia’s problems of imperial reform, and it makes clear why the imperial government did not introduce the zemstvo system into its northwest territory." - in: Slavic Review 67.3 (Fall 2008) "[a] nuanced analysis" - James P. Nielsen, in: Ab Imperio "This book is a double boon, a monograph combining original research with focused coverage of recent research and developing historiography in a Euroatlantic framework. … In Making Russians, Darius Staliūnas’ will-to-pluralize is a judicious historiographical review of the blueprints for Russification, essential for all who study the borderlands of empire." - Steven Seegel, in: Ab Imperio “Darius Staliūnas’ book has significantly contributed to our understanding of nationality politics in the North-Western province of the Russian empire in the 1860s. By drawing on his deep knowledge of local and central archives the author restores voices and actions of the empire’s actors in this region” - Juliette Cadiot, in: Ab Imperio, vol. 3 (2008) "Darius Staliūnas‘ research is distinguished by an engrossing and modern methodology of the analysis, a high level of generalization and the revelation of Russian national politics in Lithuanian and Belarusian territories which is based on numerous sources and the most objective approach to the issue. Consequently, it is worth incorporating the work of the Lithuanian historian into Belarusian scientific context and publish it in Belarusian language." - in: ARCHE (http://arche.by) "Without question Darius Staliūnas has presented us with a richly detailed study that really does make plain the intricate nature of imperial policy for managing its North Western Province. … historians of nineteenth century Russia and the history of borderlands will want to read this study." - in: Central and Eastern European Review, Volume 2 (2008) “The content of Staliūnas’s book illuminates a place, time, and set of circumstances that deserves thorough understanding. This meticulously crafted, thoughtful work rises admirable to the formidable task. It will be important reading for students of the Russian Empire and of nationality/language policy in multiethnic states, both historical and contemporary.” - in: The Russian Review 67.2 (April 2008) “The book is based on a thorough reading of secondary sources and an exhaustive use of archival materials and is not likely to be superceded soon. … The quality of the scholarship here is first rate … this important book will be required reading for anyone interested in nationality policy in the Russian Empire and, indeed, for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Russian history.” - in: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 56 (2007) H. 4 "An einem markanten historischen Beispiel analysierte und spezifizierte Darius Staliunas den so vagen wie politisch belasteten Begriff der „Russifizierung“. Er befasste sich mit der Integrationspolitik des Russischen Reiches im nordwestlichen Grenzgebiet nach dem Januaraufstand der Polen 1863, betrachtete sie im Fokus der Nationsbildung und widerlegte die Auffassung, Russifizierung sei als eine einheitliche und gleichförmige Politik gegenüber sämtlichen ethno-konfessionellen Gruppen abzuhandeln. Daraus ergibt sich ein differenziertes Bild." - in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 05.05.2008 “Making Russians is a valuable and insightful examination, based on a solid archival foundation, of the nationalities policies in tsarist Russia’s northwestern borderlands of Lithuania and Belarus. Making Russians explores the various strategies of “Russification” that the imperial government pursued – largely unsuccessfully – in this region. The book is essential reading for all students of imperial Russia. It has applications for the present as well, when issues of national identity continue to engage the citizens of both Russia and the states of the Former Soviet Union.” - John Klier, University College London "Making Russians is a solid monograph, supported by unique sources and significantly enriching existing works on the topic of Russification (…). It is impossible to separate statements in Darius Staliunas‘ work, which are entirely new or add to our knowledge of some facts and phenomena. These numerous statements concern very specific details and more general questions. I could only suggest translating this book into Polish, so Polish readers would get an opportunity to get acquainted with it." - Leszek Zasztowt, Rozprawy z Dziejow OswiatyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Map of the North Western Province and the Suvalki Gubernia (Kingdom of Poland) Introduction I. Administrative Boundaries and Nationality Policy II. The Search for a Nationality Policy Strategy in the Early 1860s III. The Meanings of Russification IV. Separating “Them” from “Us.” Definitions of Nationality in Political Practice V. Confessional Experiments VI. Metamorphoses in Language Policy Conclusions Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisAndrew Marr was born in Glasgow. He graduated from Cambridge University and has enjoyed a long career in political journalism, working for the Scotsman, the Independent, the Economist, the Express, and the Observer before being appointed as the BBC's political editor in May 2000. He is also the presenter of Start the Week. Andrew Marr's broadcasting includes series on contemporary thinkers for BBC 2 and Radio 4, and political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama. He has had major prizes from the British Press Awards, the Royal Television Society and Bafta, among others. He has written several books, including A History of 20th Century Britain and A History of Modern Britain. He lives in London.

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