Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

List of contents

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: M¿rz¿ Mäm¿d Taq¿ ¿shtiy¿n¿'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.

About the author

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).

Summary

This in-depth study of the slave trade that spurred the Russian conquest of Central Asia offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives from eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews which demonstrate that the slaves brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Eden, Jeff (Cornell University Eden
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108470513
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47051-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history