title: Chapter 1 Trade Routes and Slaving Zones in Eurasia. Empire, Ideology and Framing Legitimate Human Merchandise
abstract: Trade routes, slavery and ideology are mainstays of histories of empire, specifically of recent studies of the Ottoman and Russian empires. However, such studies are silent when it comes to the impact of worldview and religion on demarcating territories and eligible human groups for slaving, or on securing trade routes, and on how these are mutually interrelated. Fresh approaches derived from studies of slaving may benefit the historiography of empire in addressing these interrelations. Linked q