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A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the world The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation’s remarkable transformation—from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, Sören Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making. Because Russian, Chinese, and native worlds are intricately interwoven, national separations largely remained invisible at the border between the two largest Eurasian empires. This overlapping and mingling came to an end only when the border gained geopolitical significance during the twentieth century. Relying on a wealth of sources culled from little-known archives from across Eurasia, Urbansky demonstrates how states succeeded in suppressing traditional borderland cultures by cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections across the state perimeter, through laws, physical force, deportation, reeducation, forced assimilation, and propaganda. Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds critical new light on a pivotal geographical periphery and expands our understanding of how borders are determined.

A compilation of 3M voices, memories, facts and experiences from the company's first 100 years.

In the ever-changing world of engineering, the confluence of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) promises a revolutionary frontier; one that has the potential to remodel the fundamental fabric of our designed world. As our society approaches the genesis of a new age, the need for the study of this bourgeoning technology becomes clear. If harnessed properly, AR and VR have the capacity to revolutionize basic aspects of engineering methods. The combination of AR and VR can tackle the rising difficulties that engineers encounter in their design processes by providing improved tools for visualization and conceptualization. Navigating the Augmented and Virtual Frontiers in Engineering, is a thorough examination of the transformational impact of AR and VR in the vast field of engineering. This book explores the fundamental concepts, practical applications, and significant consequences of incorporating AR and VR technology into numerous engineering disciplines. It provides a comprehensive knowledge of how these immersive technologies are used in design processes, training simulations, maintenance procedures, and collaborative engineering projects. Covering topics such as asset management, geographic analysis, and sustainability, this book is an excellent resource for engineers, researchers, technological developers, postgraduate students, educators, academicians, and more.

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