Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands

This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested ''shatter zones'' which have generated some of the world''s most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late medieval/early modern period to their collapse in the early twentie...