Eastward to Empire
Author: George V. Lantzeff
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0773593187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian expansion across Siberia to the Far East.
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Author: George V. Lantzeff
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0773593187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussian expansion across Siberia to the Far East.
Author: Bennet Burleigh
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Ogilvie
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 710
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pekka Hämäläinen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 0300151179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-11-12
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 0804153477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
Author: Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-11
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1009296906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361–363) and Herakleios (610–641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood document, the Notitia dignitatum, and imposed it on the entire period from 395 to 630. This study, by contrast, gathers all of the available narrative, legal, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence to demonstrate empirically that the Notitia system emerged only in the 440s and that it was already mutating by the late fifth century before being fundamentally reformed during Justinian's wars of reconquest. This realization calls for a new, revised history of the eastern armies. Every facet of military policy must be reassessed, often with broad implications for the period. The volume provides a new military narrative for the period 361–630 and appendices revising the prosopography of high-ranking generals and arguing for a later Notitia.
Author: Anton Chekov
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780141025506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Author: John Price Durbin
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian W. Campbell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1501707892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.
Author: G. V. P. Lantzeff
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
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