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This thesis examines how the unbound world of the Don steppe frontier became a borderland of the Russian empire. It connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman states in the Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who evolved from an open, multiethnic, fra…

This thesis focuses upon the representation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Cossacks in nineteenth-century French culture. It examines how different representations motivated by either aesthetic or ideological questions informed French readers about the existence of Ukraine and its…

This dissertation studies the development of relations between Kazakhs and Siberian Cossacks in the period between the inclusion of the Kazakh Middle and Younger Hordes in the Russian Empire in the 1730s and the beginning of the twentieth century. The research is based on primar…