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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821642503321

Autore

Jersild Austin

Titolo

Orientalism and Empire : North Caucasus mountain peoples and the Georgian frontier, 1845-1917 / / Austin Jersild

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-283-52991-2

9786613842367

0-7735-6996-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

947.5/2

Soggetti

Mountain people - Russia (Federation) - Caucasus, Northern - History

Islam - Russia (Federation) - Caucasus, Northern - History

Montagnards - Russie - Ciscaucasie - Histoire

Islam - Russie - Ciscaucasie - Histoire

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History Religious aspects

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) Ethnic relations

Russia History 1801-1917

Ciscaucasie (Russie) Histoire

Ciscaucasie (Russie) Histoire Aspect religieux

Ciscaucasie (Russie) Relations interethniques

Russie Histoire 1801-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region.