Claiming Crimea kindle direct Russia s long standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth century reign of Catherine II Historian Kelly O Neill has written the first archive based multi dimensional study of the initial quiet conquest of a region that has once again moved to the forefront of international affairs O Neill traces the impact of Russian rule on the diverse population of the former khanate which included Muslim Christian and Jewish residents She discusses the arduous process of establishing the empire s social administrative and cultural institutions in a region that had been governed according to a dramatically different logic for centuries With careful attention to how officials and subjects thought about the spaces they inhabited O Neill s work reveals the lasting influence of Crimea and its people on the Russian imperial system and sheds new light on the precarious contemporary relationship between Russia and the famous Black Sea peninsula Claiming Crimea A History of Catherine the Great s Southern Empire..
Kelly O Neill is associate professor of history at Harvard University and a faculty associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire By Kelly O'Neill |
030021829X |
9780300218299 |
English |
384 |
Hardcover |
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