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    Cartographies of Tsardom the land and its meanings in seventeenth-century Russia by Kivelson, Valerie

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Nesting narratives : the history and historiography of Muscovite cartography -- Engaging with the law : cartography, autocracy, and Muscovite legality -- Signs in space : landscape and property in a serf-owning society -- "The souls of the righteous in a bright place" : landscape and orthodoxy in seventeenth-century Russian maps -- Messages in the land : Siberian maps and providential narratives -- "Exalted and glorified to the ends of the earth" : Christianity and colonialism -- "Myriad, countless foreigners" : Siberia's human geography and Muscovite conceptions of empire -- Under the sovereign's mighty hand : colonial subjects and Muscovite imperial policies…”
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    The second Ottoman Empire political and social transformation in the early modern world by Tezcan, Baki

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ottoman political history in the early modern period -- One market, one money, one law : the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all -- The question of succession : bringing the dynasty under legal supervision -- The court strikes back : the making of Ottoman absolutism -- A new empire for a second Osman : Osman II in power (1618-1622) -- The absolutist dispensation overturned : a regicide -- The second empire goes public : the age of the Janissaries -- Conclusion: Early modernity and the Ottoman decline…”
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