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Russia's Steppe Frontier : The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: [1] The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was
- Impossible / 7
- Social and Political Organization in the Steppe
- Raiding and Warfare
- Captives and Slaves
- Trade and Economy
- A Khan, or a Search for Central Authority
- Religion
- Ideology through Diplomacy
- [2] Frontier Concepts and Policies in Muscovy / 46
- The Frontier
- Shert': A Peace Treaty or an Oath of Allegiance?
- Amanat: Hostages of Sorts
- Yasak: Tribute or Trade?
- Presents and Payments: Bestowed or Extorted?
- Translating or Colonizing?
- [3] Taming the "Wild Steppe," 1480-1600s / 76
- Moscow and the Great Horde: The "Ugra Standoff"
- Reconsidered
- The End of the Golden Horde, 1481-1502: On to Kazan
- The End of the Crimean-Muscovite Alliance
- The Nogays and Kazan, 1530s-1550s: Kazan Annexed
- The Nogays and Astrakhan, 1550s
- The Astrakhan Campaign of 1569
- Containing the Nogays, 1577-1582
- Debilitating the Nogays, 1582-1600
- [4] From Steppe Frontier to Imperial Borderlands, 1600-1800 / 126
- The Nogays
- New Strategies
- The Kalmyks
- The Kazakhs
- [5] Concepts and Policies in the Imperial Borderlands,
- 1690s-1800 / 184
- Representations
- Non-Christians into Russian Orthodox
- Migration of the Native Elite and Commoners
- Colonial Contest I: Law and Administration
- Colonial Contest II: Land
- Conclusion / 221
- GLOSSARY / 230
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / 233
- NOTES / 235
- BIBLIOGRAPHY / 269
- INDEX / 283.