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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GE.US Khal / College 2d - Geschichte	Status: Entliehen	Frist: 01.06.2024	Vorbestellungen: 0

Central 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 fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule.

 

Predominantly Muslim with both nomadic and settled populations, the peoples of Central Asia came under Russian and Chinese rule after the 1700s. Khalid shows how foreign conquest knit Central Asians into global exchanges of goods and ideas and forged greater connections to the wider world. He explores how the Qing and Tsarist empires dealt with ethnic heterogeneity, and compares Soviet and Chinese Communist attempts at managing national and cultural difference. He highlights the deep interconnections between the “Russian” and “Chinese” parts of Central Asia that endure to this day, and demonstrates how Xinjiang remains an integral part of Central Asia despite its fraught and traumatic relationship with contemporary China.

 

The essential history of one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant regions on the planet, this panoramic book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering. (Verlagstext)

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

 

List of Illustrations ix

List of Maps xi

List of Tables xiii

List of Abbreviations xv

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction 1

1 The Multiple Heritages of CentralAsia 17

EMPIRE 37

2 The Manchu Conquest of Eastern Turkestan 41

3 Khoqand and Qing Silver 52

4 A Kazakh Ethnographerin Kashgar 63

5 Imperial Conquests 75

6 A Colonial Order 96

7 New Visions of the World 114

8 Imperial Collapse 134

REVOLUTION 147

9 Hope and Disappointment 151

10 The Threshold of the East 167

11 A Soviet Central Asia 185

12 Autonomy, Soviet Style 199

13 Revolution from Above 21S

14 A Republic in Eastern Turkestan 242

15 The Crucible of War 265

16 Another Republic in Eastern Turkestan 281

COMMUNISM 301

17 Development, Soviet Style 305

18 Soviet in Form, National in Content? ¿¿1

19 Xinjiang under Chinese Communism 356

20 On the Front Lines of the Cold War 377

POSTCOMMUNISM 393

21 Unwanted Independence 397

22 ANew CentralAsia 418

23 Nationalizing States in a Globalized World 433

24 Are We Still Post-Soviet? 458

25 A Twenty-First-Century Gulag 475

Conclusion 497

Notes 503

SuggestionsforFurther Reading 529

Index 539