The struggle for the Eurasian borderlands : from the rise of early modern empires to the end of the First World War /
This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Imperial space
- Imperial ideologies : cultural practices
- Imperial institutions : armies, bureaucracies and elites
- Imperial frontier encounters
- Imperial crises
- Imperial legacies
- Conclusion: Transition.
