Writing travel in Central Asian history / edited by Nile Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Nile.

JSTOR (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visitors, Foreign.

History.

Travel writing.

Asia, Central--Description and travel--Congresses.

Asia, Central.

Travel writing--History--Congresses.

Travel writing--History and criticism--Congresses.

Visitors, Foreign--Asia, Central--History--Congresses.

Central Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 220 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

For centuries, Central Asia has been made known to the wider world through the writings of travelers. The contributors to this volume employ little-known texts from the early modern and modern periods to reconstruct the variety of world interests travelers brought to Central Asia and show how the same space was represented through the literary gazes of the people who passed through it. Early Russian explorers, Indo-Persian migrants, Japanese Buddhist archaeologists, and Iranians enslaved by Turkoman tribesmen are just a few of the travelers whose accounts arc discussed. These sources make it possible to map the cultural contours of an earlier geopolitics and write a new kind of global history, one that traces changing forms of connectivity, from the age of horsemen and camel caravans to the age of railroads and motor cars. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: travel, writing and the global history of Central Asia / Nile Green

Identity, information and trade, c.1500-1850.

Early modern circulation and the question of "patriotism" between Central Asia and India / Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Prescribing the boundaries of knowledge: seventeenth century Russian diplomatic missions to Central Asia / Ron Sela

Central Asians in the eighteenth century Qing illustrations of tributary peoples / Laura Hostetler

The steppe roads of Central Asia and the Persian captivity narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi / Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni

Empire, archaeology and the arts, c.1850-1940.

"The Rubicon between the empires": the river Oxus in the nineteenth century British geographical imaginary / Kate Teltscher

Buddhist relics from the western regions: Japanese archaeological exploration of Central Asia / Imre Galambos

A Russian futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's travelogue in verse / Ronald Vroon

Narrating the Ichkari soundscape: European and American travelers on Central Asian women's lives and music / Tanya Merchant.

Notes:

This volume had its origins in the conference "The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia" hosted by the UCLA Program on Central Asia in November 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253011480

0253011485

Publisher Number:

99969435930

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.