Russia's steppe frontier : the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khodarkovsky, Michael, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.
Series:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Sociology of the frontier, or why peace was impossible
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Nogays
  • New Strategies
  • The Kalmyks
  • The Kazakhs
  • 5. Concepts and policies in the Imperial Borderlands 1690s-1800
  • Representations
  • Non-Christians into Russian Orthodox
  • Migration of the native elite and commoners
  • Colonial contest I: law and administration
  • Colonial contest II: land.