David Christian's 1998 comprehensive history of Inner Eurasia (Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia) — covering the entire sweep from prehistory through the Soviet period — one of the founding works of Inner Eurasian history as a unified field.
Established Inner Eurasia as a coherent historical unit — Christian's argument that the steppe corridor connecting Eurasia from Mongolia to Ukraine constitutes a distinct historical zone (Inner Eurasia) with its own dynamics of pastoralism, nomadism, and empire provides the framework for understanding Mongol and Russian history together.
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