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Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Note on Names, Dates, Weights and Measures, and Chinese Characters | |
Introduction | |
History, Time, and Memory | |
The Qing Conquests as a World Historical Event | |
The Formation of the Central Eurasian States | |
Environments, State Building, and National Identity | |
The Unboundedness of Central Eurasia | |
Trade, Transport, and Travel | |
The Frontier | |
Zone | |
Isolation and Integration | |
The Ming, Muscovy, and Siberia, 1400-1600 | |
The Ming and the Mongols | |
State Formation in Muscovy and Russian Expansion | |
Siberian and Chinese Frontiers | |
Central Eurasian Interactions and the Rise of the Manchus, 1600-1670 | |
Building the Zunghar State | |
The Rise of the Manchus Mongolian Influence on the Manchu State | |
Early Modern State Building Compared | |
Contending for Power | |
Manchus, Mongols, and Russians in Conflict, 1670-1690 | |
Kangxi the Ruler Galdan's Intervention | |
Kangxi's First Personal Expedition | |
The Treaty of Nerchinsk and the Excluded Middle | |
Eating Snow: The End of Galdan, 1690-1697 | |
The Dolon Nor Assembly | |
The Battle of Jao Modo | |
The Emperor Rewrites History | |
The Final Campaigns and the Fate of Galdan | |
Imperial Overreach and Zunghar Survival, 1700-1731 | |
The Rise of Tsewang Rabdan | |
Three Central Eurasian Travelers | |
The Penetration of Turkestan and Tibet | |
The New Emperor Changes Tack | |
The Final Blows, 1734-1771 Transforming the Barbarians through Trade | |
The Death Knell of the Zunghar State | |
The Conquest of Turkestan | |
The Return of the Torghuts | |
The Economic Basis of Power | |
Cannons on Camelback: Ecological Structures and Economic Conjunctures | |
Galdan the State Builder | |
Nian Gengyao and the Incorporation of Qinghai | |
Administering the Frontier | |
Land Settlement and Military | |
Colonies Deportation from Turfan | |
Settlement of Xinjiang | |
Colonization and Land | |
Clearance Economic Development | |
Harvests and Relief | |
Harvests and Yields | |
Granary Reserves | |
The Contribution Scandal | |
The Relief Campaign of 1756 | |
Currency and Commerce | |
Money on the Frontier, from Song through Ming | |
Integration and Stabilization | |
Commerce as a Weapon of War | |
Tribute and Frontier Trade | |
Fixing Frontiers | |
Moving through the Land | |
Travel and Authority | |
Marking Space in Stone | |
Maps and Power | |
Expanding the Imperial Gaze | |
Marking Time: Writing Imperial History | |
Kangxi's Campaign History | |
Yongzheng and the Dayi | |
Juemilu Qianlong's Account of the Zunghar Mongols | |
A View from the Frontier | |
Nomadic Chronicles | |
Legacies and Implications | |
Writing the National History of Conquest | |
Statecraft Writers and Empire | |
Geopolitics and Emperor Worship | |
Chinese Historians and the Multicultural State | |
Soviet and Mongolian Attacks on Qing Aggression | |
Empires, Nations, and Peoples | |
State Building in Europe and Asia | |
The Political Ecology of Frontier Conquest | |
European, Chinese, and Inner Asian Models | |
Theories of Nomadic Empires | |
Rethinking the Qing in the World | |
Frontier Expansion in the Rise and Fall of the Qing | |
The End of the Qing State | |
Northwest and Southern Frontiers | |
The Negotiated State | |
Commercialization and Regionalization | |
Appendixes | |
Rulers and Reigns | |
The Yongzheng Emperor Reels from the News of the Disaster, 1731 | |
Haggling at the Border | |
Gansu Harvests and Yields | |
Climate and Harvests in the Northwest | |
Abbreviations | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Illustration | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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