The Russian conquest of Central Asia : a study in imperial expansion, 1814-1914 / Alexander Morrison.
The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Russia's steppe frontier and the Napoleonic generation
- 2. 'Pray for the camels': the winter invasion of Khiva, 1839-41
- 3. 'This particularly painful place': the failure of the Syr-Darya line as a frontier, 1841-63
- 4. From Ayaguz to Almaty: the conquest and settlement of Semirechie, 1843-82
- 5. The search for a 'natural' frontier and the fall of Tashkent, 1863-5
- 6. War with Bukhara, 1866-8
- 7. The fall of Khiva, 1872-3
- 8. 'Those who should be spared': the conquest of Ferghana, 1875-6
- 9. 'The harder you hit them, the longer they will be quiet afterwards': the conquest of Transcaspia, 1869-85
- 10. Aryanism on the final frontier of the Russian empire: the exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1881-1905
- Epilogue: after the conquest.