Alexander Morrison (Oxford New College)

The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Russia's conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 161mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1044g
• ISBN-13: 9781107030305
• ISBN-10: 1107030307
• Artikelnr.: 60003369

Autorenporträt

Alexander Morrison is Fellow and Tutor in History at New College, Oxford. His publications include Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Russia's steppe frontier and the Napoleonic generation
2. 'Pray for the camels': the winter invasion of Khiva, 1839-1841
3. 'This particularly painful place': the failure of the Syr-Darya line as a frontier, 1841-1863
4. From Ayaguz to Almaty: the conquest and settlement of Semirechie, 1843-1882
5. The search for a 'natural' frontier and the fall of Tashkent, 1863-1865
6. War with Bukhara, 1866-1868
7. The fall of Khiva, 1872-1873
8. 'Those who should be spared': the conquest of Ferghana, 1875-1876
9. 'The harder you hit them, the longer they will be quiet afterwards': the conquest of Transcaspia, 1869-1885
10. Aryanism on the final frontier of the Russian empire: the exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1881-1905
Epilogue: after the conquest.