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This dissertation examines the Chinese migration to Inner Mongolia, especially the Hetao/Ordos region, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and explores how the Mongol periphery was transformed by processes of market penetration and state expansion, and how domest…

This dissertation presents an archaeological investigation of the Aral Sea region, ca. AD 300-800. The Aral Sea is a large, brackish lake in Central Asia, located in the modern states of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The sea and its deltas provide critical resources in an arid dese…

Russia's relationship with the Kazakhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved from that of a pre-modern Muscovite state with several Inner-Asian nomadic neighbors, to that of a more centralized bureaucratic Russian Empire influenced by the European Enlightenment. The…