Beyond the Steppe Frontier A History of the Sino-Russian Border
Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border

The Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation's remarkable transformation-from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth centur...

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Main Author: Urbansky, Sören 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Subjects:
Geschichte 1650-1991
HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
Borderlands > China > History > 20th century
Borderlands > Russia > History
Borderlands > Soviet Union > History
Grenzgebiet
China
Argun > Fluss
Sowjetunion
Russland
Online Access:DE-1043
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DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-19
DE-706
DE-739
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Summary:The Sino-Russian border, once the world's longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation's remarkable transformation-from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, Sören Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making.Because Russian, Chinese, and native worlds are intricately interwoven, national separations largely remained invisible at the border between the two largest Eurasian empires. This overlapping and mingling came to an end only when the border gained geopolitical significance during the twentieth century. Relying on a wealth of sources culled from little-known archives from across Eurasia, Urbansky demonstrates how states succeeded in suppressing traditional borderland cultures by cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections across the state perimeter, through laws, physical force, deportation, reeducation, forced assimilation, and propaganda.Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds critical new light on a pivotal geographical periphery and expands our understanding of how borders are determined
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages) 35 b/w illus. 4 tables
ISBN:9780691195445
DOI:10.1515/9780691195445

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