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