Focuses on the history, relevance, and impact of domestic civilian national service. This title explains why such service has yet to be institutionalized in the United States; while military and higher education have solidified their roles as American institutions, civilian national service is still not recognized as a long-term policy option.
Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840 1865
The book explores the crucial role of geographical imagination in shaping the mindset of imperial Russia. It delves into how geographical perceptions influenced cultural, political, and historical narratives, providing a nuanced understanding of Russian identity during the imperial era. Through an intellectual and historiographical lens, it examines the interplay between geography and the mental frameworks that guided imperial policies and societal views.
Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the new spatial history. It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to the national and from the eighteenth century through the present. Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, What is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in Russia; Mark Bassin, Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie: Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism; John Randolph, Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800; Richard Stites, On the Dance Floor: Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia; Patricia Herlihy, Ab Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central Asia; Robert Argenbright, Soviet Agitational Vehicles: Colonization from Place to Place; Christopher Ely, Street Space and Political Culture under Alexander II; Sergei Zhuk, Unmaking the Sacred Landscape of Orthodox Russia: Religious Pluralism, Identity Crisis, and Religious Politics on the Ukrainian Borderlands of the late Russian Empire; Cathy A. Frierson, Filling in the Map for Vologda's Post-Soviet Identity; and Lisa A, Kirschenbaum, Place, Memory and the Politics of Identity: Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg.