PUBL.- Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts
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Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts
Edited by UYAMA Tomohiko
Routledge, 2011, xv + 296 pp.
ISBN 978-0-415-61537-2
£80.00
Description:
Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a
European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in
Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of enough
information and resources to rule its culturally diverse subjects, and
asymmetric relations between state and society combined with flexible
strategies of local actors sometimes produced unexpected results.
In Asiatic Russia, an international team of scholars explores the
interactions between power and people in Central Asia, Siberia, the
Volga-Urals, and the Caucasus from the 18th to the early 20th
centuries, drawing on a wealth of Russian archival materials and
Turkic, Persian, and Tibetan sources. The variety of topics discussed
in the book includes the Russian idea of a "civilizing mission," the
system of governor-generalships, imperial geography and demography,
roles of Muslim and Buddhist networks in imperial rule and foreign
policy, social change in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, Muslim
reformist and national movements.
The book is essential reading for students and scholars of Russian,
Central Eurasian, and comparative imperial history, as well as
imperial and colonial studies and nationalism studies. It may also
provide some hints for understanding today's world, where "empire" has
again become a key word in international and domestic power relations.
Contents:
Introduction: Asiatic Russia as a space for asymmetric interaction
UYAMA Tomohiko
Part I Russia's eastern expansion: its "mission" and the Tatars'
intermediary role
1. The Russian Empire's civilizing mission in the eighteenth century:
A comparative perspective
Ricarda VULPIUS
2. Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia's eastern policies
HAMAMOTO Mami
3. The Russian Empire and the intermediary role of Tatars in Kazakhstan:
the politics of cooperation and rejection
Gulmira SULTANGALIEVA
Part II - Taming space and people: institutions and demography
4. Intra-bureaucratic debate on the institution of Russian governors-
general in the mid-nineteenth century
MATSUZATO Kimitaka
5. Colonization and "Russification" in the imperial geography of Asiatic
Russia: from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries
Anatolii REMNEV
6. Empire and demography in Turkestan: numbers and the politics of
counting
Sergei ABASHIN
Part III - Russian power projected beyond its borders
7. Russo-Chinese trade through Central Asia: regulations and reality
NODA Jin
8. Muslim networks, imperial power, and the local politics of Qajar Iran
Robert D. CREWS
9. Sunni-Shi'i relations in the Russian protectorate of Bukhara, as
perceived by the local 'ulama
KIMURA Satoru
10. The open and secret diplomacy of Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet:
the role of Agvan Dorzhiev (1912-1925)
Nikolay TSYREMPILOV
Part IV - Asiatic Russia as a space for national movements
11. Muslim political activity in Russian Turkestan, 1905-1916
Salavat ISKHAKOV
12. The economics of Muslim cultural reform: money, power, and Muslim
communities in late imperial Russia
James H. MEYER
13. The Alash Orda's Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan:
the Kazakh national movement and the Russian imperial legacy
UYAMA Tomohiko
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415615372/
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