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
PublicationIthaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxiii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Caspian world Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2025 9781501781292
LCCN 2025001695
ISBN9781501781278
ISBN9781501777172 hardcover
ISBN1501777173 hardcover
ISBN1501781278 paperback
ISBNelectronic publication
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