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Book SynopsisA New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northern Eurasia. This is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through consecutive historical stages. Rather, the book is a modern analytical approach to the problem of human diversity as a fundamental social condition. Through cooperation and confrontation, various attempts to manage diversity fostered processes of societal self-organization, as new ideas, practices, and institutions were developed virtually from scratch or radically altered. Essentially, this is the story of individuals and societies creatively responding to their natural and social environments in unique historical circumstances.This volume explores how the mutual interactions of several local socio-political arrangements, and attempts to integrate with one of the universal cultures of the time,
Table of ContentsForeword 1. Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region 2. Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia’s First Polities 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State-Building in Northern Eurasia, 1000-1300 4. From a Local Political Space to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Local Scenarios of Power, 1200-1400 5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Duchy of Moscow, 1400-1600 6. The Transformation of Social Imagination in 17th-Century Northern Eurasian Societies 7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an ‘Assembly Point’ Bibliography Index
