Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002 M03 12 - 288 pages 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
The Discourse of Empire | 3 |
Conquest and Exile | 25 |
The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy | 38 |
Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus | 59 |
Noble Peoples Savage | 89 |
The Russian Shamil 18591871 | 110 |
Russification and the Return of Conquest | 126 |
the Soviet Union | 155 |
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