Orientalism and empire : North Caucasus mountain peoples and the Georgian frontier, 1845-1917

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Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the eme...

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Main Author: Jersild, Austin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
Mountain people > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern > History.
Islam > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern > History.
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > History.
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > History > Religious aspects.
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > Ethnic relations.
Russia > History > 1801-1917.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Discourse of Empire
  • Conquest and Exile
  • Orthodoxy: The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy in the Caucasus
  • Narodnost': Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers
  • Customary Law: Noble Peoples, Savage Mountaineers
  • The Russian Shamil, 1859-1871
  • Russification and the Return of Conquest
  • Conclusion: Empire and Nativism in the Russian Caucasus
  • Afterword: Visualizing the Multi-ethnic Community in the Soviet Union.

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