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Edited by UYAMA Tomohiko |
Contributors |
ix |
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Preface |
xii |
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Maps |
xiv |
Introduction: Asiatic Russia as a space for asymmetric interaction |
Uyama Tomohiko |
1 |
Russia’s eastern expansion: its “mission” and the Tatars’ intermediary role | 11 |
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1 The Russian Empire’s civilizing mission in the eighteenth century: A comparative perspective |
Ricarda Vulpius |
13 |
2 Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia’s eastern policies |
Hamamoto Mami |
32 |
3 The Russian Empire and the intermediary role of Tatars in Kazakhstan: the politics of cooperation and rejection | Gulmira Sultangalieva | 52 |
Taming space and people: institutions and demography | 81 |
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4 Intra-bureaucratic debate on the institution of Russian governors-general in the mid-nineteenth century |
Matsuzato Kimitaka |
83 |
5 Colonization and “Russification” in the imperial geography of Asiatic Russia: from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries |
Anatolii Remnev |
102 |
6 Empire and demography in Turkestan: numbers and the politics of counting |
Sergei Abashin |
129 |
Russian power projected beyond its borders | 151 |
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7 Russo-Chinese trade through Central Asia: regulations and reality |
Noda Jin |
153 |
8 Muslim networks, imperial power, and the local politics of Qajar Iran |
Robert D. Crews |
174 |
9 Sunni-Shi‘i relations in the Russian protectorate of Bukhara, as perceived by the local ‘ulama |
Kimura Satoru |
189 |
10 The open and secret diplomacy of Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet: the role of Agvan Dorzhiev (1912–1925) |
Nikolay Tsyrempilov |
216 |
Asiatic Russia as a space for national movements |
235 |
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11 Muslim political activity in Russian Turkestan, 1905–1916 |
Salavat Iskhakov |
237 |
12 The economics of Muslim cultural reform: money, power, and Muslim communities in late imperial Russia | James H. Meyer |
252 |
13 The Alash Orda’s Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan: the Kazakh national movement and the Russian imperial legacy |
Uyama Tomohiko |
271 |
Index |
288 |