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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jersild, Austin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Mountain people.

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

Islam.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia)--History.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia).

Caucasus, Northern (Russia)--History--Religious aspects.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia)--Ethnic relations.

Russia--History--1801-1917.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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

ISBN:

1-283-52991-2

9786613842367

0-7735-6996-0

OCLC:

123470225