num_pages: 264
description: In Europe’s Steppe Frontier , acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which inspired but also blinded most of the historians of the region. Moreover, the unique institutional adjustments southeastern Europeans made to the frontier challenge cast indirect light upon the peculiarities of the North American frontier experience.
language: English
title: Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800: A Study of the Eastward Movement in Europe
titlecomplete: Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800: A Study of the Eastward Movement in Europe
genres: European History, Geography, History
ratings_count: 42
publisher: University of Chicago Press