Europe's Steppe Frontier, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred: A Study of the Eastward Movement in Europe

In "Europe's Steppe Frontier, "acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which inspired but also blinded most of the historians of the region. Moreover, the unique institutional adjustments southeastern Europeans made to the frontier challenge cast indirect light upon the peculiarities of the North American frontier experience.McNeill, William H. is the author of 'Europe's Steppe Frontier, Fifteen Hundred to Eighteen Hundred: A Study of the Eastward Movement in Europe' with ISBN 9780226561516 and ISBN 0226561518.