title: Vicious Barbarians, Slave Girls, and Mythologized Mountains: The Effects of Orientalist Discourse in Literature and Memoir on the Prosecution of the Great Caucasian War, 1817-1864
abstract: Dates included in this thesis, to the best of my knowledge and abilities, follow New Style, Gregorian calendar notation. When my sources offered both, I included only the New Style dates. Those few works that published dates following the Julian calendar system without noting so are the only sources of Old Style dating in my thesis. Their unknown nature, unfortunately, prevents me from noting or correcting them. I apologize and take full responsibility for any inconsistencies. In most instances,
journal: CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)