Автор: Michael Khodarkovsky
Название: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Издательство: Indiana University Press
Год издания: 2002
Страниц: 304
ISBN: 0253217709
Формат: pdf/rar
Размер: 124 Мб
Язык: английский
Качество: хорошее

Описание
Anyone familiar with the author’s first book Where Two Worlds Met (1992) must look forward to reading this new volume, which is a comprehensive study of Moscow’s relations with the steppe nomads from the emergence of a Russian empire until the closing of the frontier 300 years later. He will not be disappointed. In the author’s own words, this book is about the transformation of a dangerous frontier into a part of the empire and of its peoples into subjects. Certainly more controversial is his determination to show that Ru

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