Pre-Tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change

ISBN-13: 9780415311779 / Twarda / 2003 / 336 str.

Paul Georg Geiss

Opis

This study represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Tribal Communal Commitment 2. Residential Communal Commitment 3. Pre-tsarist Tribal Political Integration 4. Dynastic Rule in the River Oases: Between Tribalism and Patrimonialism 5. Tsarist Colonial Administration and their Impact on Communal Commitment 6. Tsarist Protectorates 7. Prospects

O autorze

Paul Georg Geiss is a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg. He specialises in the social history and comparative politics of Central Asia.