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Janet
L. B. Martin.
Treasure of the Land of
Darkness: The Fur Trade and its Significance for Medieval Russia.
Cambridge University Press, May 2004.
287pp.
Paperback.
ISBN 052154811X.
Replaces the hardback edition published in 1986.
Publisher's
recommended price £21.99
Treasure of the Land of Darkness
traces the traffic in fur from the lands of the north, through the
major trade centres of medieval Russia to the consumer markets of the
world, stretching from western Europe to China. Professor Martin
reconstructs the fur-trade network of each centre (including Kiev,
Novgorod and Moscow) and examines the changes they experienced. She
shows how aggressive principalities enhanced their political authority
through manipulation of such factors as fur resources and trade routes:
thus the mid-sixteenth-century supremacy of Muscovy was based upon both
political advantage and monopolisation of the networks of the fur
trade. Quantitative analysis of the available data substantiates this
conclusion: control over the trade of those 'lands of darkness'
mentioned in contemporary Islamic texts was of fundamental importance
to the political development of medieval Russia.
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