Orientalism and Empire North Caucasus mountain peoples and the Georgian frontier, 1845-1917

Title:

Author:

Jersild, Austin.

ISBN:

9780773523289

9780773569966

Personal Author:

Jersild, Austin.

Publication Information:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 253 p.) : ill., maps.

Contents:

The Discourse of Empire -- Conquest and Exile -- Orthodoxy: The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy in the Caucasus -- Narodnost': Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers -- Customary Law: Noble Peoples, Savage Mountaineers -- The Russian Shamil, 1859-1871 -- Russification and the Return of Conquest -- Conclusion: Empire and Nativism in the Russian Caucasus -- Afterword: Visualizing the Multi-ethnic Community in the Soviet Union.

Subject Term:

Mountain people -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern -- History.

Islam -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern -- History.

Montagnards -- Russie -- Ciscaucasie -- Histoire.

Islam -- Russie -- Ciscaucasie -- Histoire.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Ethnic relations.

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- History.

Ciscaucasie (Russie) -- Histoire.

Ciscaucasie (Russie) -- Histoire -- Aspect religieux.

Ciscaucasie (Russie) -- Relations interethniques.

Russie -- Histoire -- 1801-1917.

Imperialisme.