Rampart nations : bulwark myths of East European multiconfessional societies in the age of nationalism / edited by Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher.

Table of Contents: “…Debates on exclusion, integration, and identity in Galicia in the nineteenth and early twentieth century / Jurgen Heyde -- Holy ground and bulwark against "the other" : the (re- )construction of an orthodox Crimea in the 19th-century Russian Empire / Kerstin Jobst -- Bastions of faith in the oceans of ambiguities : monasteries in the East European borderlands (late 19th-beginning of the 20th centuries) / Liliya Berezhnaya -- "The Turkish wall" : Turkey as an anti-communist and anti-Russian bulwark in the 20th century / Zaur Gasimov -- Why didn't the Antemurale historical mythology develop in early 19th-century Ukraine? …”
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The odd man Karakozov : Imperial Russia, modernity, and the birth of terrorism / Claudia Verhoeven. by Verhoeven, Claudia, 1972-

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Survival and consolidation : the foreign policy of Soviet Russia, 1918-1921 / Richard K. Debo. by Debo, Richard K., 1938-

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Russia in world history / Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin. by Engel, Barbara Alpern

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Polin : Jews in Independent Poland, 1918-1939. by Polonsky, Antony

Table of Contents: “…Corrsin, Warsaw before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire, 1880-1914Józef Wróbel, Tematy źydowskie w prozie polskiej 1939-1987; Jan T. …”
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Enlightened colonialism : civilization narratives and imperial politics in the Age of Reason / Damien Tricoire, editor.

Table of Contents: “…; Notes; References; Part III The Invention of Intra-European Colonialism; Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire; Civilization Through Religion.…”
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Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism / Azar Gat ; with contributions by Alexander Yakobson. by Gat, Azar

Table of Contents: “…5 Premodern Europe and the national stateGeopolitics: statehood in the Classical Mediterranean and in emergent Europe; A The mushrooming of national states in emergent Europe; The British Isles: a history of four nations; Scandinavian identity and national identities; The medieval German national empire; The Czech lands; The Polish national state and empire; The Russian nation and the Russian Empire; Conclusion; B Southern versus northern Europe; Medieval national states and the clutches of empires in southeast Europe.…”
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Polin : Jews in Lodz, 1820-1939. by Polonsky, Antony

Table of Contents: “…Corrsin, Warsaw before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire 7880-7974 by Adam A. Hetnal.…”
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Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker. by Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

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Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940 : opening new archives, revisiting a global city / edited by Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire.

Table of Contents: “…The Case of Jerusalem's Maghariba Neighborhood -- Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842-1860 -- The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods: Introduction : The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at Citadinité -- Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem's Networks of Citadinité in the late 19th Century -- Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839-1840 -- An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858-1914 -- Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate Period -- Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864-1914 -- Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What Is Said to Have Happened: Introduction -- Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840-1940 -- Arab-Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda -- Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem's Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884-1915 -- Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847-1930 -- The St. …”
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The dawn watch : Joseph Conrad in a global world / Maya Jasanoff. by Jasanoff, Maya, 1974-

The Tommy Koh reader : favourite essays and lectures / Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large, Singapore. by Koh, Tommy T. B. (Tommy Thong Bee), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…From Harvard to the UNLaw of the Sea; Earth Summit; Making Peace Between Russia and the Baltic States; Helping Cambodia; Love Affair with America; A Constitution for the Oceans; Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Opening for Signature of the 1982 UNCLOS; Making Peace Between Russia and the Baltics; Introduction; The Historical Background; Latvia; Lithuania; Break-up of the Russian Empire; The UN General Resolution 47/21 of 1992; The Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy; Role of UN Special Envoy; My Recommendations; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Success of the Mission; Conclusion.…”
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Arctic Mirrors : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. by Slezkine, Yuri

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Eurasian environments : nature and ecology in Imperial Russian and Soviet history / edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle.

Table of Contents: “…Planting Trees in Unsuitable Places: Steppe Forestry in the Russian Empire, 1696-1850 / David Moon; 3. "People Arrive but the Land Does Not Move": Nomads, Settlers, and the Ecology of the Kazakh Steppe, 1870-1916 / Sarah Cameron…”
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The Western Christian presence in the Russias and Q?aj?ar Persia, c. 1760-c. 1870 / by Thomas S.R.O Flynn OP. by Flynn, Thomas S. R. O

Table of Contents: “…Henry Brunton, Scripture Translation and Printing at KarassThe Influence of Protestant Pietism and the Foundation of the Russian Bible Society (1812â#x80;#x93;24); 6 Scottish and Jesuit Missionaries in the North Caucasus and the Imperial Russian Dominions: Karass, Astrakhan, Mozdok, Orenburg, the Crimea and Odessa (1805â#x80;#x93;30s); The Exploratory Journey of Ebenezer Henderson and John Paterson for the RBS; Jesuit Missions Established during the Nineteenth Century within the Expanding Russian Empire; The Jesuit Mission at Mozdok; The Suppression of the Jesuits in Imperial Russia.…”
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Shatterzone of Empires : Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands / edited by Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz.

Table of Contents: “…Judson -- Travel, railroads, and identity formation in the Russian empire / Frithjof Benjamin Schenk -- Germany and the Ottoman borderlands : the entwining of imperial aspirations, revolution, and ethnic violence / Eric D. …”
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To get Ukraine : a report from inside the country for those looking on from the outside / by Oleksandr Shyshko ; translated by Hew Davies ; book created by Max Mendor. by Shyshka, Oleksandr

Table of Contents: “…-- The Cossacks -- Ukraine's first attempt to gain independence -- Ukraine's second attempt to gain independence -- The left bank of Ukraine under Russian rule -- The right bank of Ukraine under the Rzeczpospolita -- An association of Ukrainian lands inside the borders of the Russian empire -- The first renaissance of Ukrainian self-consciousness -- The Ukrainians under the rule of Austria-Hungary -- The events of the First World War in the territory of Ukraine -- The third attempt to obtain independence, and the most likely to succeed? …”
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Die böhmischen Länder in den Wiener Zeitschriften und Almanachen des Vormärz (1805-1848), Teil III : Kunst : Tschechische nationale Wiedergeburt, Kultur- und Landeskunde von Böhmen, Mähren und Schlesien, kulturelle Beziehungen zu Wien / Gertraud Marinelli-Konig. by Marinelli-König, Gertraud, 1950-

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A history of the world in the twentieth century / J.A.S. Grenville. by Grenville, J. A. S. (John Ashley Soames), 1928-2011

Table of Contents: “…The Emergence of the United States as a World Power -- 7. The Russian Empire: Absolutism and Adaptation -- 8. The Closing Decades of the Habsburg Empire -- 9. …”

The Routledge history of world peace since 1750 / edited by Christian Philip Peterson, William M. Knoblauch, and Michael Loadenthal.

Table of Contents: “…5 Three apostles of non-violence: An introduction to the religious thinking of Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan; 6 The evolution of Tolstoyan pacifism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900-1937; 7 One man's peace: Influences on Martin Luther King, Jr.'…”
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