The Caspian world : connections and contentions at a modern Eurasian crossroads / edited by Abbas Amanat, Kevin Gledhill, and Kayhan A. Nejad.
| Other author | Amanat, Abbas, editor. |
| Other author | Gledhill, Kevin, editor. |
| Other author | Nejad, Kayhan A., 1991- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xiii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Persianate Caspian: isolation to inclusion / Abbas Amanat -- The Ottoman Empire and the Caspian Sea in the sixteenth century / Murat Yasar -- Papering over a diplomatic gulf: bureaucracy and translation between early modern -- Central Asian and Muscovite courts / Ulfatbek Abdurasulov -- Armenians and Russian interests in the Caspian Sea, 1660-1795 / George Bournoutian -- Astrakhan and the Caspian Sea in Russia's early modern geography / Guido Hausmann -- Nader Shah and the Caspian: a sea too far / Ernest Tucker -- Follow the Armenians: British plans for the Caspian in the eighteenth century / Matthew P. Romaniello -- "Under the pretense of trade they drew maps:" Qajar views of Russia and Russian mapmaking in the Caspian in the eighteenth-century / Kevin Gledhill -- Caspian forests as political setting: a socio-environmental study of the Bābīresistance at the Fort of Shaykh Ṭabarsi / Saghar Sadeghian -- The custom of customs: licit and illicit crossings in the Caspian Sea, 1864-1917 / Rustin Zarkar -- The Transcaspian Railroad in the works of Nikolaĭ Karazin, 1842-1908 / Elena Andreeva -- Border crossings: Iranian artists in Tsarist Russia and Georgia / Layla S. Diba -- In the glocal crossfire: Russia, Britain, and the Caspian, 1916-1919 / Denis V. Volkov -- The Jangal Movement and regional revolutionaries in Northern Iran, 1914-1921 / Kayhan A. Nejad -- "The Persian gate to revolution": Bolshevik networks and post-WWI transnationalism in Iran / Alisa Shablovskaia -- Pragmatic elements of early Soviet policy toward Iran / Iurii Demin -- Maritime horizons: the Caspian Sea in Soviet-Iranian relations, 1930s-1980s / Etienne Forestier-Peyrat. |
| Abstract | "This book probes connections and disconnections-political, economic, social, material, and cultural-across all regions on the Caspian Sea littoral"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Caspian world Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2025 9781501781292 |
| LCCN | 2025001695 |
| ISBN | 9781501781278 |
| ISBN | 9781501777172 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1501777173 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1501781278 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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