Stefan B. Kirmse

Lawful Empire (eBook, PDF)

Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108606363
• Artikelnr.: 70909971

Autorenporträt

Stefan B. Kirmse is a senior research fellow and research coordinator at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and a senior lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is the author of Youth and Globalization in Central Asia (2013) and the editor of Youth in the Former Soviet South (2011) and One Law for All? (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Minority rights and legal integration in the Russian empire
2. Borderlands no more: Crimea and Kazan in the mid-nineteenth century
3. Implementing legal change: new courts for Crimea and Kazan
4. Images and practices in the new courts: the enactment of monarchy, modesty, and cultural diversity
5. Seeking justice: Muslim Tatars go to court
6. Confronting the state: peasant resistance over land and faith
7. Dealing with unrest: crime and punishment in the 'crisis years' 1878-79
Conclusion.