Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

by William H. McNeill

Book Overview

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier, "acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which inspired but also blinded most of the historians of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226561518
• ISBN13: 9780226561516
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Chicago/London)
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.