The Cossack myth : history and nationhood in the age of empires /
"In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled 'The History of the Rus, ' it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012, ♭2012.
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Colección: | New studies in European history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The Mystery
- A call for freedom
- The Cossack annals
- The birth of the myth
- Part II. On a Cold Trail
- A noble heart
- The Cossack prince
- The Kyiv manuscript
- Part III. Pieces of a Puzzle
- A matter of time
- Uncovering the motive
- How did he do it?
- The Cossack treasure
- Part IV. Unusual Suspects
- People and places
- The Cossack aristocrats
- The liberated gentry
- A history teacher
- Part V. Whodunit?
- A missing name
- Family matters
- The rivals
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Cossack family networks.