Marina B. Mogilner, Ilya V. Gerasimov, Sergey Glebov, Alexander Semyonov

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 (eBook, PDF)

From Russian to Global History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. This is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through consecutive historical stages. Rather, the book is a modern analytical approach to the problem of human diversity as a fundamental social condition. Through 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. Essentially, this is the story of individuals and societies creatively responding to their natural and social environments in unique historical circumstances.

This volume explores how the mutual interactions of several local socio-political arrangements, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350196810
• Artikelnr.: 69185138

Autorenporträt

Marina B. Mogilner is Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region
2. Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern
Eurasia's First Polities 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems:
State-Building in Northern Eurasia, 1000-1300 4. From a Local Political
Space to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Local
Scenarios of Power, 1200-1400 5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating
Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, 1400-1600 6.
The Transformation of Social Imagination in 17th-Century Northern Eurasian
Societies 7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an 'Assembly Point'
Bibliography Index