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Treasure of the Land of Darkness - The Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (Paperback, New Ed)
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Treasure of the Land of Darkness - The Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia (Paperback, New Ed)
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Treasure of the Land of Darkness traces the traffic in fur from the
lands of the north, through the major trade centres of medieval
Russia to the consumer markets of the world, stretching from
western Europe to China. Professor Martin reconstructs the
fur-trade network of each centre (including Kiev, Novgorod and
Moscow) and examines the changes they experienced. She shows how
aggressive principalities enhanced their political authority
through manipulation of such factors as fur resources and trade
routes: thus the mid-sixteenth-century supremacy of Muscovy was
based upon both political advantage and monopolisation of the
networks of the fur trade. Quantitative analysis of the available
data substantiates this conclusion: control over the trade of those
'lands of darkness' mentioned in contemporary Islamic texts was of
fundamental importance to the political development of medieval
Russia.
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