'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe': The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate

With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day.

The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic—speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English of this khanate for over one hundred years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield shows that this misunderstood and much—feared nation was, in fact, a flourishing state with a...