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Title	A history of the peoples of Siberia : Russia's north Asian colony, 1581-1990 / James Forsyth.
Author	Forsyth, James, 1928-
Published	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1992, 1994]
	©1992
Description	455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format	text; unmediated; volume
ISBN	0521477719 (paperback)
	9780521477710
	0521477719

Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-436) and index.
Contents	1. Siberia 'discovered' -- 2. Siberia invaded: the seventeenth century -- 3. Central and north-east Siberia in the seventeenth century -- 4. The Mongolian and Chinese frontier in the seventeenth century -- 5. Russia's north Asian colony -- 6. The eighteenth century -- 7. Expansion in the north Pacific -- 8. Siberia in the Russian empire: the nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial settlers in Siberia: the nineteenth century -- 10. The Far East in the nineteenth century -- 11. The Russian Revolution and civil war in Siberia -- 12. The native peoples, 1917-1929 -- 13. Soviet Siberia in the 1930s -- 14. Soviet Russia's Far East in the 1930s -- 15. Soviet Siberia after 1941 -- 16. The native peoples of Siberia after 1945 -- 17. Siberia in the 1980s.
Summary	This ethnographic history of Siberia analyses the ethnographic and linguistic features of the native peoples and traces their history from the Russian conquest and colonization to the Soviet Revolution and the native rights (Small Peoples) movements, with comparisons to Indian, Eskimo and Inuit in Canada and the United States.
Subjects (Topics)	Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
Subjects (Places)	Siberia (Russia) -- Social life and customs.
	Siberia (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration.
	Siberia (Russia) -- History.
Bib utility control no.	31439115