Ebook: Explorations in the social history of modern Central Asia (19th-early 20th century)
Author: edited by Paolo Sartori.
- Genre: History
- Series: Brill's Inner Asian library v. 29.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Brill
- City: Leiden, The Netherlands
- Language: English
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Post-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus Read more...
Introduction: On the Social in Central Asian History : Notes in the Margins of Legal Records / Paolo Sartori --
Amlakdars, Khwajas and Mulk Land in the Zarafshan Valley after the Russian Conquest / Alexander Morrison --
Managing Rural Landscapes in Colonial Turkestan : A View from the Margins / Beatrice Penati --
Who Should Manage the Water of the Amu-Darya? : Controversy over Irrigation Concessions between Russia and Khiva, 1913-1914 / Akifumi Shioya --
High Rank and Power among the Northern Kirghiz : Terms and Their Problems, 1845-1864 / Daniel G. Prior --
Performance and Poetics in Kyrgyz Memorial Feasts : The Discursive Construction of Identity Categories / Svetlana Jacquesson --
Using Turki-Language Qazaq Letters to Reconstruct Local Political History of the 1820s-30s / Virginia Martin --
A Month among the Qazaqs in the Emirate of Bukhara : Observations on Islamic Knowledge in a Nomadic Environment / Allen J. Frank --
Creating the Facade of a Despotic State : On Aqsaqals in Late 19th-Century Bukhara / Andreas Wilde --
Fathers and Sons : Re-Readings in a Samarqandi Private Archive / Thomas Welsford.