title: Frontier Bandits and Cultures of Violence: The Black Sea Steppe in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
abstract: This chapter explores the lives and experiences of frontier bandits in the Black Sea Steppe in the middle of the eighteenth century.Using biographies as ab ottom-up approach to writing history, it provides an insight into the little-known realities of lifei nt he steppe frontier and its connectionst ot he Russian and the Polish-Lithuanian borderlands.T he chapter demonstratest hat frontier bandits connected the polities and people of Russia, Polish-Lithuania, the Crimean Khanate, and the Ottoman
journal: V&R unipress eBooks