Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700

by Brian L. Davies

Book Overview

This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies' study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power.

For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire for mastery of the Ukraine and the fertile steppes above the Black Sea, a region of great strategic and economic importance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415239850
• ISBN13: 9780415239851
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"