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Outsourcing Empire Building: Europeans in the 19th Century Russian Caucasus

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Abstract

This paper examines why officials tolerated the settlement of Scottish and Swiss missionaries, German colonists, and French entrepreneurs in the North and South Caucasus in the first half of the nineteenth century. It proposes that the answer can give us insight into a little-studied aspect of Romanov expansionism: an experimental and controversial effort to outsource the work of paternalist developmentalism to foreign expatriates.

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