James Cracraft
Biographic Data
| ID | 962827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Cracraft |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Cracraft |
| SIGNATURE | CRACRAFT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Russia’s Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801. By G. M. Hamburg
This very big book is a well-conceived study of political thought in Russia over the three centuries indicated in its title. A relatively brief initial chapter, “Searching for Enlightenment,” sets out the author’s plan, which is to show how “the phenomenon we call the Russian Enlightenment” (p. 19) was a matter as much of historical continuities as it was of the discontinuities set in motion by the revolution of Peter the Great. This is followed …
History as Philosophy
Historians have taken a beating in recent times from an array of critics troubled by our persistent unwillingness to properly theorize our work. This essay contends that their criticisms have generally failed to make headway among mainstream historians owing to a little noticed cognitive byproduct of our work that I call history as philosophy. In so doing I offer a novel defense of professional history as it has been understood and practiced in t…
The Specter of Marxism
The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture
The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture
Implicit Morality
Let us strive then to think well; that is the first principle of morality.Pascal, Pensées, 1670 ABSTRACTMost historians today have abandoned the aspiration to a kind of scientific objectivity in their work-pace their postmodernist critics. Yet we cling nonetheless, with a touch perhaps of hypocrisy, to the closely related standard of strict impartiality, or moral neutrality, in all that we do. This article argues that the latter is as obsolete, n…
A Berlin for Historians
On his death in 1997 Isaiah Berlin was widely hailed as a leading philosopher of political liberalism. This article takes the position that Berlin's philosophical views, particularly those on freedom and cultural pluralism, can also be construed as a valuable guide for historians working in the present, "postmodernist" climate of debate. It further argues that Berlin's character and career, the subjects already of considerable critical inquiry, l…
Great Catherine
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The Petrine Revolution in Russian Architecture
The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow: A Cultural History
Peter the Great and Marlborough: Politics and Diplomacy in Converging Wars
Kliuchevskii on Peter the Great
Russkaia kul'tura vtoroi poloviny XVII-Nachala XIX v
Podatnaia reforma Petra I. Vvedenie podushnoi podati v Rossii 1719-1728 gg
Russia and the West in the Eighteenth Century: Proceedings of the Second International Conference Organized by the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia and Held at the University of East Anglia, N…
The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide
The Soviet Union Today
Autocracy and Aristocracy: The Russian Service Elite of 1730 . Brenda Meehan-Waters Alexander III and the State Council: Bureaucracy and Counter-Reform in Late Imperial Russia . Heide W. Whelan
For God and Peter the Great: The Works of Thomas Consett 1723-1729
The Soviet Union
Ingermanland: Eine junge Provinz Russlands im Wirkungsbereich der Residenz und Weltstadt St. Petersburg-Leningrad
Nuts and Bolts
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Did Feofan Prokopovich Really Write Pravda Voli Monarshei
A chance archival discovery prompted the question which forms the title of this article. Unfortunately, my attempts to answer the question soon revealed that the attribution to Feofan Prokopovich of the celebrated treatise,Pravda voli monarshei vo opredelenii naslednika derzhavy svoei (The Right of the Monarch's Will in Designating the Heir to His Realm), rests on sand. In fact, it gradually transpired that nearly every other major work tradition…
Peter the Great's Administrative and Judicial Reforms: Swedish Antecedents and the Process of Reception. Claes Peterson
More "Peter the Great"
Implicit Morality
Let us strive then to think well; that is the first principle of morality.Pascal, Pensées, 1670 ABSTRACTMost historians today have abandoned the aspiration to a kind of scientific objectivity in their work-pace their postmodernist critics. Yet we cling nonetheless, with a touch perhaps of hypocrisy, to the closely related standard of strict impartiality, or moral neutrality, in all that we do. This article argues that the latter is as obsolete, n…
A Berlin for Historians
On his death in 1997 Isaiah Berlin was widely hailed as a leading philosopher of political liberalism. This article takes the position that Berlin's philosophical views, particularly those on freedom and cultural pluralism, can also be construed as a valuable guide for historians working in the present, "postmodernist" climate of debate. It further argues that Berlin's character and career, the subjects already of considerable critical inquiry, l…
The Church Reform of Peter the Great
History as Philosophy
Historians have taken a beating in recent times from an array of critics troubled by our persistent unwillingness to properly theorize our work. This essay contends that their criticisms have generally failed to make headway among mainstream historians owing to a little noticed cognitive byproduct of our work that I call history as philosophy. In so doing I offer a novel defense of professional history as it has been understood and practiced in t…
Great Catherine
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The Soviet Union Today
Nuts and Bolts
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Did Feofan Prokopovich Really Write Pravda Voli Monarshei
A chance archival discovery prompted the question which forms the title of this article. Unfortunately, my attempts to answer the question soon revealed that the attribution to Feofan Prokopovich of the celebrated treatise,Pravda voli monarshei vo opredelenii naslednika derzhavy svoei (The Right of the Monarch's Will in Designating the Heir to His Realm), rests on sand. In fact, it gradually transpired that nearly every other major work tradition…
By the Banks of the Thames: Russians in Eighteenth Century Britain
The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs
The Russian Mind
The Russian Levites: Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century
A Siberian Journey: The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774-1776
First published in 1955 in German, this journal, published here in English for the first time, describes the adventures of a young Swiss surgeon who sought his fortune in eighteenth-century Russia, where he eventually made his mark and rose to a high position. The journal covers his journey to Southern Russia and his service there during the campaigns of 1770-74, and gives a day-by-day account of his trip through Siberia to the Chinese borders as…
Russia under Western Eyes, 1517-1825
Peter the Great
Imperial Russia, 1682-1825: The Coming of Age of Modern Russia
Peter the Great
The Church Reform of Peter the Great
Russia under Western Eyes, 1517-1825
The Tercentenary of Peter the Great in Russia
Guardian of the Petrine Revolution
Soft Spots in the Hard Line
A Siberian Journey: The Journal of Hans Jakob Fries, 1774-1776
First published in 1955 in German, this journal, published here in English for the first time, describes the adventures of a young Swiss surgeon who sought his fortune in eighteenth-century Russia, where he eventually made his mark and rose to a high position. The journal covers his journey to Southern Russia and his service there during the campaigns of 1770-74, and gives a day-by-day account of his trip through Siberia to the Chinese borders as…
The Succession Crisis of 1730: A View from the Inside
The Russian Mind
Pis'ma i bumagi imperatora Petra Velikogo [Letters and Papers of Emperor Peter the Great], Vol. 12, Part 1
In the Russian Style
The Russian Levites: Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century
A Brief History of Russia to 1689
More "Peter the Great"
The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 6: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25
By the Banks of the Thames: Russians in Eighteenth Century Britain
The Russian Empire: A Portrait in Photographs
Did Feofan Prokopovich Really Write Pravda Voli Monarshei
A chance archival discovery prompted the question which forms the title of this article. Unfortunately, my attempts to answer the question soon revealed that the attribution to Feofan Prokopovich of the celebrated treatise,Pravda voli monarshei vo opredelenii naslednika derzhavy svoei (The Right of the Monarch's Will in Designating the Heir to His Realm), rests on sand. In fact, it gradually transpired that nearly every other major work tradition…
Peter the Great's Administrative and Judicial Reforms: Swedish Antecedents and the Process of Reception. Claes Peterson
Ingermanland: Eine junge Provinz Russlands im Wirkungsbereich der Residenz und Weltstadt St. Petersburg-Leningrad
Nuts and Bolts
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For God and Peter the Great: The Works of Thomas Consett 1723-1729
The Soviet Union
Autocracy and Aristocracy: The Russian Service Elite of 1730 . Brenda Meehan-Waters Alexander III and the State Council: Bureaucracy and Counter-Reform in Late Imperial Russia . Heide W. Whelan
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