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Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA. His recent books include Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, winner of the Albert Hourani Award for outstanding publishing in Middle East Studies and Sufism: A Global History.
Introduction: Travel, Writing and the Global History of Central Asia Nile Green
Part I. Identity, Information and Trade, c.1500-1850
1. Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism' between Central Asia and India Sanjay Subrahmanyam
2. Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth Century Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia Ron Sela
3. Central Asians in the Eighteenth Century Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples Laura Hostetler
4. The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni
Part II. Empire, Archaeology and the Arts, c.1850-1940
5. 'The Rubicon between the Empires': The River Oxus in the Nineteenth Century British Geographical Imaginary Kate Teltscher
6. Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia Imre Galambos
7.: A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's Travelogue in Verse Ronald Vroon
8. Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American Travelers on Central Asian Women's Lives and Music Tanya Merchant
Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA. His recent books include Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, winner of the Albert Hourani Award for outstanding publishing in Middle East Studies and Sufism: A Global History.
Introduction: Travel, Writing and the Global History of Central Asia Nile Green
Part I. Identity, Information and Trade, c.1500-1850
1. Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism' between Central Asia and India Sanjay Subrahmanyam
2. Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth Century Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia Ron Sela
3. Central Asians in the Eighteenth Century Qing Illustrations of Tributary Peoples Laura Hostetler
4. The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni
Part II. Empire, Archaeology and the Arts, c.1850-1940
5. 'The Rubicon between the Empires': The River Oxus in the Nineteenth Century British Geographical Imaginary Kate Teltscher
6. Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia Imre Galambos
7.: A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's Travelogue in Verse Ronald Vroon
8. Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American Travelers on Central Asian Women's Lives and Music Tanya Merchant
Exploration and information at a global crossroads
Introduction: Travel, Writing and the Global History of Central Asia Nile Green
Part I. Identity, Information and Trade, c.1500-1850
1. Early Modern Circulation and the Question of 'Patriotism'
between Central Asia and India Sanjay Subrahmanyam
2. Prescribing the Boundaries of Knowledge: Seventeenth Century
Russian Diplomatic Missions to Central Asia Ron Sela
3. Central Asians in the Eighteenth Century Qing Illustrations of
Tributary Peoples Laura Hostetler
4. The Steppe Roads of Central Asia and the Persian Captivity
Narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni
Part II. Empire, Archaeology and the Arts, c.1850-1940
5. 'The Rubicon between the Empires': The River Oxus in the
Nineteenth Century British Geographical Imaginary Kate
Teltscher
6. Buddhist Relics from the Western Regions: Japanese
Archaeological Exploration of Central Asia Imre Galambos
7.: A Russian Futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's Travelogue in
Verse Ronald Vroon
8. Narrating the Ichkari Soundscape: European and American
Travelers on Central Asian Women's Lives and Music Tanya
Merchant
Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA. His recent books include Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, winner of the Albert Hourani Award for outstanding publishing in Middle East Studies and Sufism: A Global History.
[A]n eclectic collection that spans from the sixteenth to the
twentieth century, offers contributions from historians, literary
scholars, and ethnomusicologists. . . We gain a sense of the
evolving goals of outside powers: Russian and Persian missions
sought to halt a burgeoning slave trade; Indian princedoms sought
allies; Chinese Qing bureaucrats sought to categorize and rule the
peoples on the edge of their empire; German anthropologists sought
an 'Aryan heartland'; and the British worked to define geographic
markers to their advantage in the nineteenth century 'Great Game'
with the tsarist empire.
*American Historical Review*
In his engaging, lucid introduction to 'Writing Travel in Central
Asian History', Nile Green writes that its chapters use the lens of
travel writing to 'explore the different meanings given to Central
Asia in the far corners of the world during the region's most
intensive periods of globalization between the sixteenth and
twentieth centuries'. . . intriguing and valuable . . . .May
2016
*Journal of Asian Studies*
Accustomed as we have become to appraise Central Asia through the
prism of postcolonialism, Nile Green's collection turns our
collective head 180 degrees. The eight essays and Green's
introduction that frames them sets us off in an entirely new
direction. . . . The essays provide a new approach for the study of
Central Asia, and, they are excellent for this reason.
*Slavic Review*
Aiming 'to connect Central Asia to global history', this body of
research will prove an important anthology for scholars and
advanced students alike who are interested in exploring the
cultural connections uniting these proximate spheres.
*Central Asian Survery*
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