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