{"product_id":"9780774834100","title":"Beyond the Amur : Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850-1930 by Victor Zatsepine","description":"Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for natural resources. Although official imperial histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground between rival empires, this colourful history of a region and its people tells a different story.   Drawing on both Russian and Chinese sources, Victor Zatsepine shows that both empires struggled to maintain the border. But much to the chagrin of imperial administrators, various peoples - Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol - moved freely across it in pursuit of work and trade, exchanging ideas and knowledge as they adapted to the harsh physical environment.   By viewing the Amur as a unified natural economy caught between two empires, Zatsepine highlights the often-overlooked influence of regional developments on imperial policies and the importance of climate and geography to local, state, and imperial histories.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294888046965,"sku":"9780774834100","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780774834100.jpg?v=1762766377","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780774834100","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}