Writing travel in Central Asian history / edited by Nile Green.
| Other author | Green, Nile. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014] |
| Description | ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: travel, writing and the global history of Central Asia / Nile Green -- Identity, information and trade, c.1500-1850. -- Early modern circulation and the question of "patriotism" between Central Asia and India / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- Prescribing the boundaries of knowledge: seventeenth century Russian diplomatic missions to Central Asia / Ron Sela -- Central Asians in the eighteenth century Qing illustrations of tributary peoples / Laura Hostetler -- The steppe roads of Central Asia and the Persian captivity narrative of Mirza Mahmud Taqi / Abbas Amanat and Arash Khazeni -- Empire, archaeology and the arts, c.1850-1940. -- "The Rubicon between the empires": the river Oxus in the nineteenth century British geographical imaginary / Kate Teltscher -- Buddhist relics from the western regions: Japanese archaeological exploration of Central Asia / Imre Galambos -- A Russian futurist in Asia: Velimir Khlebnikov's travelogue in verse / Ronald Vroon -- Narrating the Ichkari soundscape: European and American travelers on Central Asian women's lives and music / Tanya Merchant. |
| General note | This volume had its origins in the conference "The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia" hosted by the UCLA Program on Central Asia in November 2010. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013034752 |
| ISBN | 9780253011343 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780253011350 (pbk. : alk. paper) |