A History of the Peoples of Siberia
Russia's North Asian Colony 1581–1990

The first ethnohistory of Siberia in English, analysing ethnographic and linguistic features of the native peoples.

James Forsyth (Author)

9780521477710, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 September 1994

476 pages, 27 b/w illus.
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg

'… this is a highly commendable work.' Slavonic Review

This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, tracing the history of the native peoples from the Russian conquest onwards. James Forsyth compares the Siberian experience with that of the Indians and Eskimos in North America and the book as a whole will provide readers with a vast corpus of ethnographic information previously inaccessible to Western scholars.

List of illustrations
List of maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on spellings and terms
1. Siberia 'discovered'
2. Siberia invaded: the seventeenth century
3. Central and north-east Siberia in the seventeenth century
4. The Mongolian and Chinese frontier in the seventeenth century
5. Russia's north Asian colony
6. The eighteenth century
7. Expansion in the north Pacific
8. Siberia in the Russian empire: the nineteenth century
9. Colonial settlers in Siberia: the nineteenth century
10. The Far East in the nineteenth century
11. The Russian Revolution and civil war in Siberia
12. The native peoples, 1917–1929
13. Soviet Siberia in the 1930s
14. Soviet Russia's Far East in the 1930s
15. Soviet Siberia after 1941
16. The native peoples of Siberia after 1945
17. Siberia in the 1980s
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB]