The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War
written by Alfred J. Rieber, 1931- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2014, originally published 2014), 652 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested “shatter zones” which have generated some of the world’s most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian, and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late medieval/early modern period to their collapse in the early twentieth century. He charts how these empires expanded along moving, military frontiers,competing with one another in war, diplomacy, and cultural practices, while the subjugated peoples of the borderlands strove to maintain their cultures and to defend their autonomy. The gradual and fragmentary adaptation of Western constitutional ideas, military reforms, cultural practices, and economic penetration began to undermine these ruling ideologies and institutions, leading to the collapse of all five empires in revolution and war within little more than a decade between 1911 and 1923.
- Field of Interest
- World History
- Author
- Alfred J. Rieber, 1931-
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2014 Alfred J. Rieber
- Content Type
- Book
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2014
- Page Count
- 652
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place Published / Released
- Cambridge, England
- Subject
- World History, Global Issues, History, Social Sciences, War and Violence, Wartime Conditions and Military Tactics, Territorial Disputes, Political and Social Movements, Border Disputes, Border Enforcement and Control, EU and its Borders, Internal and External, War, International relations, Diplomacy, Political boundaries, Cultural identity, Cultural assimilation, Imperialism, History, Law, Geography, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Guerra y Violencia, Guerra e Violência, Condições do Tempo de Guerra e Táticas Militares, Condiciones en Tiempos de Guerra y Tácticas Militares, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos, Asia, Europe, Asians, Europeans, Early Modern Period (1450–1750), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914), Post-Classical Period (500–1450)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Guerra y Violencia, Guerra e Violência, Condições do Tempo de Guerra e Táticas Militares, Condiciones en Tiempos de Guerra y Tácticas Militares, Las Disputas Territoriales, Disputas Territoriais, Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos
