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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 - From Russian to Global History (Hardcover)
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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 - From Russian to Global History (Hardcover)
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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new
language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies,
and institutions that existed on the territory of today’s
Northern Eurasia, until recently part of the USSR. Traditional
concepts and genealogies that frame human experience have to be
avoided or reframed: this is not the story of a certain present-day
state or people evolving through consecutive historical stages.
Rather, the book’s point of departure is a modern analytical
approach to the problem of human diversity as a fundamental social
condition. In the form of cooperation and confrontation, various
attempts to manage diversity fostered processes of societal
self-organization, as new ideas, practices, and institutions were
developed virtually from scratch or radically altered when
borrowed. Essentially, this is the story of individuals and
societies who creatively responded to their natural and social
environments and sought answers to universal problems in unique
historical circumstances. This volume, which brings together
leading scholars from both the United States and Russia, covers a
millennium-long period in the history of the region characterized
by the coexistence of several local sociopolitical arrangements.
The book shows that their mutual interactions and attempts to
integrate with one of the universal cultures of the time caused a
string of unintended consequences. As a result, the enormous
landmass from the Carpathian Mountains in the west to the Pacific
Ocean in the east, from the Polar Circle in the north to the steppe
belt in the south was divided among several regional powers.
Ultimately unable to overtake each other by military force, they
were locked in a zero-sum game until the uneven development of
modern state institutions tilted the balance in favor of one of
them – Russia.
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