Imperial Boundaries

Posted By admin on Apr 27, 2014

Brian J. Boeck Imperial Boundaries Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great Imperial Boundaries is a study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia’s Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great. Brian Boeck connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the northern Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who were transformed from an open,...