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Author:   David Christian (San Diego State University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   1.247kg
ISBN:  

9780631210382

ISBN 10:   0631210385
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   02 March 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii List of Maps xi List of Tables xiii Series Editor’s Preface xv Acknowledgments xix Preface: The Idea of Inner Eurasia xxi Part I Inner Eurasia in the Agrarian Era: 1260–1850 1 1 Inner Eurasia in the Late Thirteenth Century: The Mongol Empire at its Height 3 2 1260–1350: Unraveling and the Building of New Polities 23 3 1350–1500: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia 49 4 1350–1500: Western Inner Eurasia 71 5 1500–1600: Pastoralist and Oasis Societies of Inner Eurasia 97 6 1500–1600: Agrarian Societies West of the Volga 119 7 1600–1750: A Tipping Point: Building a Russian Empire 143 8 1600–1750: A Tipping Point: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia between Russia and China 175 9 1750–1850: Evolution and Expansion of the Russian Empire 209 Part II Inner Eurasia in the Era of Fossil Fuels: 1850–2000 231 10 1850–1914: The Heartland: Continued Expansion and the Shock of Industrialization 233 11 1750–1900: Beyond the Heartlands: Inner Eurasian Empires, Russian and Chinese 269 12 1914–1921: Unraveling and Rebuilding 309 13 1921–1930: New Paths to Modernity 343 14 1930–1950: The Stalinist Industrialization Drive and the Test of War 367 15 1900–1950: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia 403 16 1950–1991: The Heartland: A Plateau, Decline, and Collapse 437 17 1950–1991: Beyond the Heartlands: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 473 18 1991–2000: Building New States: General Trends and the Russian Federation 493 19 1991–2000: Building New States: Beyond the Heartlands 531 Epilogue: After 2000: The End of Inner Eurasia? 569 Chronology 573 Index 605

Reviews

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia is an unusual and remarkably innovative work that demonstrates how big-picture historical approaches can illuminate national histories. -- Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 66, Number 1, 2020 This is a welcome addition to the teaching resources available for Russian and Eurasian history which deserves to be widely used. -- SEER, 98, 3, JULY 2020

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia is an unusual and remarkably innovative work that demonstrates how big-picture historical approaches can illuminate national histories. -- Australian Journal of Politics and History Volume 66, Number 1, 2020 This is a welcome addition to the teaching resources available for Russian and Eurasian history which deserves to be widely used. -- SEER, 98, 3, JULY 2020

Author Information

David Christian has taught Russian and Soviet history for many years. He is also the Director of Macquarie University's Big History Institute, and designer and lead teacher on Macquarie University's Coursera based MOOC and Specialization in Big History. He was founding President of the International Big History Association, and is co-founder with Bill Gates, of the Big History Project, which has built a free on-line high school syllabus in big history.

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