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Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great
Contributor(s): Boeck, Brian J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107695015     ISBN-13: 9781107695016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $39.89  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- History | Europe - Baltic States
Dewey: 947.490
Series: New Studies in European History
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.88 lbs) 270 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region - Baltic
 
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Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed from an open, democratic, multiethnic, male fraternity dedicated to frontier raiding into a closed, ethnic community devoted to defending and advancing the boundaries of the Russian state. He shows how by promoting border patrol, migration control, bureaucratic regulation of cross-border contacts and deportation of dissidents, Peter I destroyed the world of the old steppe and created a new imperial Cossack order in its place. In examining this transformation, Imperial Boundaries addresses key historical issues of imperial expansion, the delegitimization of non-state violence, the construction of borders, and the encroaching boundaries of state authority in the lives of local communities.

Contributor Bio(s): Boeck, Brian J.: - Brian J. Boeck is Assistant Professor in the History Department at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
 
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