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The leading Mongol writer G. Mend-Ooyo's poetic novel Altan Ovoo offers a vision of nomadic literature based as much on the history and worldview of Mongol nomadic herders as on the late twentieth century Mongolia, poised between Soviet-influenced socialism and Euro-American dem…

The Assyrian empire emerged from a foggy period of Mesopotamian history, which neither texts nor archaeology have illuminated. Prior to that Dark Age at the turn of the first millennium, the Middle Assyrian kingdom controlled provinces in north Syria southeast Turkey, the region…

This dissertation explores the development of modern property administration and governance in the Ottoman Empire from the perspective of pastoral nomads. Utilizing both central state archival material and district court and land registers, the study combines analysis of governa…

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…