Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589
"...this a very well organized book....  This reinterpretive monoggraph is clearly intended for the serious historian."    Choice"Donald Ostrowski's bold, wide-ranging, argumentative book examines the competing influences that shaped Muscovy in its formative centuries and how Muscovites reconciled, incorporated, or adapted those influences and made them their own.  ...the book is...an extraordinary feat, daring in its scope, its ambitions, and its successes."    Valerie A. Kivelson, American Historical Review"Doubtless, the book moves the study of the Mongols in Russia to a much higher plane.  Ostrowski has succeeded in refashioning the terms in which the Mongol-Russian interaction will be studied for decades to come."  The Russian Review"Ostrowski is to be congratulated for offering a book that is both erudite and readable. He has taken on a well-worn topic and succeeded in delivering a fresh and insightful new treatment."    Russell E. Martin, H-Net Reviews"This is an engaging and wide-ranging book, based on an impressive scope of reading and research. It will interest not only historians of premodern Russia and the Mongol (or Tatar) Empire but also historians of the medieval Islamic world and the Byzantine Empire.  In addition, social scientists and historians studying cultural interaction and influence should find it of much value."  Speculum