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- The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Central Eurasia in Context
summary
In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, rebellion, and then revolution. To date, efforts to identify the cause of this crisis have focused on the assumption that the region became isolated from early modern globalizing trends. The Bukharan Crisis exposes that explanation as a flawed relic of early Orientalist scholarship on the region.
In its place, Scott Levi identifies multiple causal factors that underpinned the Bukharan crisis. Some of these were interrelated and some independent, some unfolded over long periods while others shocked the region more abruptly, but they all converged in the early eighteenth century to the detriment of the Bukharan Khanate and those dependent upon it. Levi applies an integrative framework of analysis that repositions Central Asia in recent scholarship on multiple themes in early modern Eurasian and world history
In its place, Scott Levi identifies multiple causal factors that underpinned the Bukharan crisis. Some of these were interrelated and some independent, some unfolded over long periods while others shocked the region more abruptly, but they all converged in the early eighteenth century to the detriment of the Bukharan Khanate and those dependent upon it. Levi applies an integrative framework of analysis that repositions Central Asia in recent scholarship on multiple themes in early modern Eurasian and world history
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Note on Geographic Terminology
- pp. xiii-xvi, 1-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-11
- One: Bukhara in Crisis
- pp. 12-36
- Two: Silk Roads, Real and Imagined
- pp. 37-69
- Three: The Early Modern Silk Road
- pp. 70-119
- Four: The Crisis Revisited
- pp. 120-172
- Conclusion
- pp. 173-180
- Bibliography
- pp. 181-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822987338
Related ISBN(s)
9780822945970
MARC Record
OCLC
1155211402
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2020-05-24
Language
English
Open Access
No