Central Asia : : A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present / / Adeeb Khalid.
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fac...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (576 p.) :; 27 b/w illus. 9 tables. 8 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Multiple Heritages of Central Asia
- Empire
- 2 The Manchu Conquest of Eastern Turkestan
- 3 Khoqand and Qing Silver
- 4 A Kazakh Ethnographer in Kashgar
- 5 Imperial Conquests
- 6 A Colonial Order
- 7 New Visions of the World
- 8 Imperial Collapse
- Revolution
- 9 Hope and Disappointment
- 10 The Threshold of the East
- 11 A Soviet Central Asia
- 12 Autonomy, Soviet Style
- 13 Revolution from Above
- 14 A Republic in Eastern Turkestan
- 15 The Crucible of War
- 16 Another Republic in Eastern Turkestan
- Communism
- 17 Development, Soviet Style
- 18 Soviet in Form, National in Content?
- 19 Xinjiang under Chinese Communism
- 20 On the Front Lines of the Cold War
- Postcommunism
- 21 Unwanted Independence
- 22 A New Central Asia
- 23 Nationalizing States in a Globalized World
- 24 Are We Still Post-Soviet?
- 25 A Twenty-First- Century Gulag
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index