TY - BOOK AU - Poullada,S.Peter AU - Styron,Claora E. TI - Russian-Turkmen Encounters: The Caspian Frontier Before the Great Game SN - 9781786732347 AV - DS329.4 .P685 2018 U1 - 327.4705809/033 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited KW - Asia, Central-History KW - Russia-History-1689-1801 KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Part I: Russian - Turkmen Frontier Encounters: 1558 - 1745 -- 1. The Khan's Letter -- 2. Astrakhan, the Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Long-Distance Caravan Trade -- 3. Turkmen, Uzbeks and Russians -- 4. The Duel for Mangyshlak between Turkmen, Kalmyks and Kazakhs -- The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kalmyks -- The Turkmen of Mangyshlak and the Kazakhs -- 5. Russian - Turkmen Relations in the Era of Peter the Great -- Nadir Shah Afshar in Central Asia -- Conclusion -- Part II: The Journals of Captain Tebelev (1741) and Captain Kopytovskii (1745) -- Preface to the English Translation -- Introduction -- From the Journal of Captain G. Tebelev, 1741 -- 12 June [1741] -- 14 June [1741] -- June [1741] -- 17 (June) [1741] -- 18 June [1741] -- 19 June [1741] -- 22 June [1741] -- 23 June [1741] -- 25 June [1741] -- 26 June [1741] -- 27 June [1741] -- 28 June [1741] -- From the Journal of Captain V. Kopytovskii, 1745 -- 9 June [1745] -- 13 July [1745] -- [14 July 1745] -- 14 July [1745] -- 16 July [1745] -- 17 July [1745] -- 19 July [1745] -- 21 July [1745] -- 23 July [1745] -- 25 July [1745] -- 26 July [1745] -- 27 July [1745] -- 11 August [1745] -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5720455 ER -