Explorations in the social history of modern Central Asia (19th-early 20th century) / / edited by Paolo Sartori.
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. 'Expl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Inner Asian library,
v. 29 Brill's Inner Asian Library 29. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.