Slavery and Empire in Central Asia Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Eden Jeff
Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.
The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth?nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this region in the 1860s?70s. Challenging the consensus that the Russian Empire abolished slavery with these conquests, Eden uses these documents to reveal that it was the slaves themselves who brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history.
Introduction; 1. The setting: Russia, Iran, and the slaves of the Khanates; 2. Beyond the bazaars: geographies of the slave trade in Central Asia; 3. From despair to liberation: Mῑrzā Maḥmūd Taqῑ Āshtiyānῑ's ten years of slavery; 4. The slaves' world: jobs, roles and families; 5. From slaves to serfs: manumission along the Kazakh frontier; 6. The Khan as Russian agent: native informants and abolition; 7. The conquest of Khiva and the myth of Russian abolitionism in Central Asia.
Jeff Eden is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cornell University. He is the author of The Life of Muhammad Sharif (2015) and co-editor of Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Islam in Russia, Central Asia and Western China (19th-20th Centuries) (2016).
Date de parution : 03-2020
Ouvrage de 240 p.
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Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 240 p.
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