Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226561523)

In Europe's Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which inspired but also blinded most of the historians of the region. Moreover, the unique institutional adjustments southeastern Europeans made to the frontier challenge cast indirect light upon the peculiarities of the North American frontier experience.

Author: William H. McNeill
ISBN-10: 0226561526
ISBN-13: 9780226561523
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2011
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.55w x 0.54d