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Page 1. The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade 1550-1900 SCOTT C.LEVI Page 2. Page 3. ... more Page 1. The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade 1550-1900 SCOTT C.LEVI Page 2. Page 3. Th± s One W2QY-LXD-OC68 Page 4. Page 5. THE INDIAN DIASPORA IN CENTRAL ASIA AND ITS TRADE, 1550-1900 Page 6. ...
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Not: in pages 104-105 are some technical mistakes missed by publishers (in arabic text and correc... more Not: in pages 104-105 are some technical mistakes missed by publishers (in arabic text and correction of editor)
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The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Pr... more The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016. xiii + 410 pp. isbn 978-0-80145-407-3. $ 49.95. In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan examines the relationship between Russia's economic ambitions and territorial expansion across Siberia from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. One might be tempted to pause for a moment and ask: in the larger context of Russian imperial history, how important was Siberia? As the answer unfolds over eight chapters, divided into three parts, it becomes quite clear that for early modern Russia, Siberia was very important. Throughout her study, Monahan highlights not just Russian intentions, but the ways that the Siberian environment challenged Russian officials and merchants, requiring them to rethink their plans, modify them, and make new ones in order to achieve their goals. Monahan summarizes: " Siberia immediately evokes associations of exile and fur, but the history of Siberia told here is that of an empire learning to function " (p. vi). Part One of the book, " Commerce and Empire, " introduces readers to Rus-sian objectives in venturing into Siberia. Monahan observes that Moscow's political and commercial interests were in some ways different from those of other early modern European powers venturing out elsewhere in the globe. But she finds that the differences have often been overstated, and those that merit consideration stem from environmental factors peculiar to the Russian experience in Siberia and not from Russia's presumed backwardness or isolation. Together, merchants and agents of the state learned to negotiate governance, commercial relationships, and life in a distant and poorly defined imperial territory that was rapidly expanding and transforming over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In these first two chapters, Monahan lays the foundation for her argument that the state was important, but that it was primarily local context that shaped infrastructure, relationships and fortunes in early modern Siberia.
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