The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480–1725: Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia 9783110696431, 9783110696417

The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480–1725: Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia 9783110696431, 9783110696417

Open Access The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during t

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From Empire to Eurasia: Politics, Scholarship, and Ideology in Russian Eurasianism, 1920s–1930s 9781501757013

The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of young Russian émigrés who had recently emerged from yea

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Sharīʿa in the Russian Empire: The Reach and Limits of Islamic Law in Central Eurasia, 1550-1917 9781474444316

Studies the formulation, transmission and application of Islamic law under Russian colonial rule Presents the theory and

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Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire 9780228003083

A political biography of the famous Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa and his clash with the emerging Russian empire. A pol

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In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia 1108482449, 9781108482448

During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history. Genghis Khan and his successors

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Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire 9780300220766

How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grig

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Russian Foreign Policy in Eurasia: National Interests and Regional Integration 113820451X, 9781138204515

How has Russia increased its strength and power over the last 15 years? By what means did the Kremlin bring Armenia back

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Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca 9781501701313

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossro

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Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny 9781501750595

Focusing on two spaces of the imperial uncanny—the Baltic north/Finland and the Ukrainian south—Haunted Empire reconstru

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Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 9783666310287, 9783647310282, 9783525310281

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