Brian L. Davies is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He specializes in Russian History as well as early modern European, Ottoman, and Central Asian history. He has published State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia (Palgrave MacMillan), and Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 (Routledge), and recently contributed two chapters to The Cambridge History of Russia. Volume One: From Early Russia to 1689 (CUP).

[This book] offers a magnificent panorama of the country’s expansion. The reader will return to it again and again, not only to appreciate what good scholarship must be, but also as an inexhaustible source of information... We now have a splendid work of reference and analysis to understand the geopolitical situation in the Black Sea basin during much of the eighteenth century. Readers must look forward to the appearance of the next volume.

• Preface Acknowledgments Maps; I. The Black Sea Steppe and the Emerging Russian Empire; II. Peter I's Campaign on the Pruth, 1711; III. Russia's Southern Frontier Policy after the Pruth Debacle; IV. Munnich's War, 1735-1739; V. Colonization, Administrative Reform, and Military Change, 1740s-1760s; VI. Rumiantsev and the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774; VII. The Black Sea Steppe in the Russian Empire, 1774-1792 Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index.