Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study.
Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study.
Alexander Morrison was born in 1978 in the Hague, the Netherlands, where his father was working as a foreign correspondent, and grew up in Moscow, Paris, Harare and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Borrowdale Primary School, Harare, Sevenoaks School in Kent and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and won the Gibbs prize for the highest First-class degree in his year. He was elected to a seven-year Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2000, and began the research for his doctoral thesis the following year, working in archives and libraries in Moscow, St Petersburg, Tashkent, Dushanbe and Delhi. He was awarded his D.Phil at Oxford in 2005, and in September 2007 took up the post of Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Liverpool. Russian Rule in Samarkand is his first book.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: The Setting 2: Religion and the Problem of Islam 3: The Creation of a Local Administration and the Abolition of Amlakdari 4: The Military Bureaucracy 5: The 'Living Wall': Native Administration in Samarkand 6: Irrigation 7: Qazis and the Judiciary Conclusion Appendices
Introduction 1: The Setting 2: Religion and the Problem of Islam 3: The Creation of a Local Administration and the Abolition of Amlakdari 4: The Military Bureaucracy 5: The 'Living Wall': Native Administration in Samarkand 6: Irrigation 7: Qazis and the Judiciary Conclusion Appendices
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