Beyond the Steppe Frontier av Soeren Urbansky

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<p><b>A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the world</b><br><br>The Sino-Russian border, once the world¿s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. <i>Beyond the Steppe Frontier </i>rectifies this by exploring the demarcation¿s remarkable transformation¿from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, S¿ren Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making.<br><br>Because Russian, Chinese, and native