{"product_id":"beyond-the-steppe-frontier-9780691208947","title":"Beyond the Steppe Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History \u0026amp; Humanities category\"\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a rich account of one of the world’s longest national borders.\"\u003cb\u003e---K.E. Stapleton, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant cross between a Lonely Planet Guide for the place you never wanted to visit and a serious academic study of life in imperial borderlands. It’s an interdisciplinary cocktail of history, politics, economics, sociology and anthropology.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sergey Radchenko, \u003ci\u003eChina Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Urbansky’s remarkable study manages to embed the history of Sino-Russian international relations into the messy and wavering social reality of a borderland that was also shaped by the cultures, agendas, and material interests of the successive generations of its inhabitants.\"\u003cb\u003e---N. Pianciola, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Steppe Frontier \u003c\/i\u003eis a great read and a very important book for anyone studying Chinese and Russian history, but it is also for students of other border regions. Certain lacunae in presenting a big­ger picture are compensated by skill­ful reconstruction of the processes on the ground. The book makes one want to read the next study.\"\u003cb\u003e---Camille Neufville, \u003ci\u003eAb Imperio Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Steppe Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e gives life to the Sino-Russian border. [Urbansky] has brilliantly served students, scholars, and history enthusiasts by presenting a compelling, innovative, and well-researched book on the recent Sino-Russian past that reminds us that human interactions make history. This human dimension, which is so central to the volume, is also responsible for making Urbansky’s thought-provoking work such an enjoyable read.\"\u003cb\u003e---Giulia Sciorati, \u003ci\u003eE-International Relations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richly detailed. . . . \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Steppe Frontier \u003c\/i\u003esheds new light on the history of the Sino-Russian border by its effort to consider the varied perspectives of its inhabitants.\"\u003cb\u003e---Elizabeth Wishnick, \u003ci\u003eThe Middle Ground Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403898757463,"sku":"9780691208947","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-steppe-frontier-9780691208947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}