Russia's steppe frontier
Subtitle: the making of a colonial empire, 1500-1800
By: Michael Khodarkovsky.
Series: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Imperialism.; Russia -- Territorial expansion.; Russia -- Boundaries.; Russia -- History -- Period of Consolidation, 1462-1605.; Russia -- History -- 1613-1689.; Russia -- History -- 1689-1801.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: [1] The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was; title: Impossible / 7; title: Social and Political Organization in the Steppe; title: Raiding and Warfare; title: Captives and Slaves; title: Trade and Economy; title: A Khan, or a Search for Central Authority; title: Religion; title: Ideology through Diplomacy; title: [2] Frontier Concepts and Policies in Muscovy / 46; title: The Frontier; title: Shert': A Peace Treaty or an Oath of Allegiance?; title: Amanat: Hostages of Sorts; title: Yasak: Tribute or Trade?; title: Presents and Payments: Bestowed or Extorted?; title: Translating or Colonizing?; title: [3] Taming the "Wild Steppe," 1480-1600s / 76; title: Moscow and the Great Horde: The "Ugra Standoff"; title: Reconsidered; title: The End of the Golden Horde, 1481-1502: On to Kazan; title: The End of the Crimean-Muscovite Alliance; title: The Nogays and Kazan, 1530s-1550s: Kazan Annexed; title: The Nogays and Astrakhan, 1550s; title: The Astrakhan Campaign of 1569; title: Containing the Nogays, 1577-1582; title: Debilitating the Nogays, 1582-1600; title: [4] From Steppe Frontier to Imperial Borderlands, 1600-1800 / 126; title: The Nogays; title: New Strategies; title: The Kalmyks; title: The Kazakhs; title: [5] Concepts and Policies in the Imperial Borderlands,; title: 1690s-1800 / 184; title: Representations; title: Non-Christians into Russian Orthodox; title: Migration of the Native Elite and Commoners; title: Colonial Contest I: Law and Administration; title: Colonial Contest II: Land; title: Conclusion / 221; title: GLOSSARY / 230; title: LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / 233; title: NOTES / 235; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY / 269; title: INDEX / 283.