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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jeff Sahadeo , Jeff SahadeoPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780253222794ISBN 10: 0253222796 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 22 June 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the Dynamics of Conquest 1. Ceremonies, Construction, and Commemoration 2. Educated Society, Identity, and Nationality 3. Unstable Boundaries: The Colonial Relationship and the 1892 ""Cholera Riot"" 4. Migration, Class, and Colonialism 5. The Predicaments of ""Progress,"" 1905–1914 6. War, Empire, and Society, 1914–1916 7. Exploiters or Exploited? Russian Workers and Colonial Rule, 1917–1918 8. ""Under a Soviet Roof"": City, Country, and Center, 1918–1923 Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsA powerful picture of the cultural impact of empire on Russia's periphery... Highly recommended. -Choice Gives the reader an intriguing portrait of the city during some of its key historical moments. -Transitions Online A very rich, very intelligent study. -Journal of Modern History A welcome and important contribution to historical scholarship... Sahadeo's book illuminates issues of identity and rule that remain relevant today. -Far Eastern Economic Review This excellent book... provide[s] a vivid picture of a new, brash but insecure colonial capital existing alongside and often in conflict with an ancient Muslim culture. -Steppe [T]his book deserves a broad readership, both of Russianists and of 'imperialists' specializing in various national histories. -Kritika, 10, 4 (Fall 2009) Sahadeo gives a vivid and reliable account of European-'Sart' interaction in colonial Tashkent... a groundbreaking study in this field. -Central Asian Survey, Vol. 29, No. 1, March 2010 Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent is an excellent book, rich in detail and anecdote from archival sources, local newspapers, memoirs and other publications... Sahadeo's book is likely to be a standard work on the colonial period for many years to come. -Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 88.4, October 2010 A powerful picture of the cultural impact of empire on Russia's periphery... Highly recommended. Choice Gives the reader an intriguing portrait of the city during some of its key historical moments. Transitions Online A very rich, very intelligent study. Journal of Modern History A welcome and important contribution to historical scholarship... Sahadeo's book illuminates issues of identity and rule that remain relevant today. Far Eastern Economic Review This excellent book ... provide[s] a vivid picture of a new, brash but insecure colonial capital existing alongside and often in conflict with an ancient Muslim culture. Steppe Author InformationJeff Sahadeo is Associate Professor of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is editor (with Russell Zanca) of Everyday Life in Central Asia (IUP, 2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |