The Cossacks
Shane O´rourke
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Description for The Cossacks
Paperback. .
This is an exceptional book covering 500 years of the history of the Cossacks – the recklessly brave, wild horsemen or the romantic hero of the steppe or the brutal mounted policemen, as they have been remembered throughout history.
Starting with a description of the world of the steppe before moving on to a more detailed analysis of the circumstances in which the Cossacks emerged and flourished in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the author considers the relationship of the Cossacks to the surrounding states in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the prism of three great conflicts: ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076800
SKU
V9780719076800
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99-2
About Shane O´rourke
Shane O'Rourke is Lecturer in History at the University of York -- .
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