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The modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825 /
"This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation theory which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship between...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | New approaches to European history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Modernisation theory and Russian history
- Modernisation theory
- Russian history, 1676-1825
- Imperial great power
- Ambitions and achievements
- Military and naval reform
- The primacy of foreign policy
- The consequences of imperial expansion
- Finance and taxation
- Muscovite taxation
- War and financial modernisation, 1700-1762
- War and financial modernisation, 1762-1825
- The burden of taxation
- The political and social impact of taxation
- Society
- Social policy
- Social identities: the peasantry
- Social identities: the nobility
- Social mobility
- Social conflict
- Government and justice
- The court
- Central and local government
- Patrons, clients, and bureaucrats
- The church in government
- Justice
- Culture
- Education and literacy
- Hierarchies of culture
- Cosmopolitanism and national consciousness
- Centre and periphery
- Science and superstition
- Religion and secularisation
- Private and public, amateur and professional
- Ideology
- Tsar and state
- State and nation
- Church and state
- The economy
- Economic ideas and economic policy
- Population and natural resources
- Transport and technology
- Trade and commerce
- Agriculture and industry, town and country
- Economic growth.