Cargando…

Writing travel in Central Asian history /

"For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Green, Nile (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.