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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965133003321

Autore

Myer Will <1968->

Titolo

Islam and colonialism : western perspectives on Soviet Asia / / Will Myer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002

ISBN

1-135-78583-X

0-203-22191-5

0-7007-1765-X

1-280-03181-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304p.)

Collana

Central Asia research forum series

Classificazione

89.91

Disciplina

958.0429

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Asia, Central

Asia, Central Foreign public opinion

Asia, Central Politics and government 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the development of western thought about Central Asia, this book argues that for historical and political reasons, Central Asia was seen as being in a colonial relationship with Russia. Consequently, an anti-colonial revolution in Asia was seen as the greatest threat to the USSR. The book questions the suitability of the colonial model for understanding the region's recent political history and challenges many of the assumptions which underlay the adoption of such a model, and examines how this one interpretation came to dominate western discourse to the virtual exclusion of all others.