ISBN10: 0199547378, ISBN13: 9780199547371, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover XXX, 364 pp. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 8vo. Hardcover with dust jacket, fine copy, only dust jacket with two folds.
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ISBN10: 0199547378, ISBN13: 9780199547371, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Russian Rule in Samarkand examines the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian imperialism in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study. The creation of a colonial administration in Central Asia presented Russia with similar problems to those faced by the British in India, but different approaches to governance meant that the two regimes often stood in stark contrast to one another. While the Russian administration wascharacterised by corruption and inefficiency, British rule in India was often more violent, and its subjects much more heavily taxed.Opening with the background to the political situationin Central Asia and a narrative of the Russian conquest itself, the book moves on to analyse official attitudes to Islam and to pre-colonial elites, and the earliest attempts to establish a functioning system of revenue collection. Uncovering the religious and ethnic composition of the military bureaucracy, and the social background, education and training of its personnel, Alexander Morrison assesses the competence of these officers vis-a-vis their Anglo-Indian counterparts. Subsequentchapters look at the role of the so-called 'native administration' in governing the countryside and collecting taxes, the attempt to administer the complex systems of irrigation leading from the Zarafshan andSyr-Darya rivers, and the n ...
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ISBN10: 0199547378, ISBN13: 9780199547371, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 400 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Maps, Figures. Oxford Historical Monographs.

ISBN10: 0199547378, ISBN13: 9780199547371, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Russian Rule in Samarkand examines the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian imperialism in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study. The creation of a colonial administration in Central Asia presented Russia with similar problems to those faced by the British in India, but different approaches to governance meant that the two regimes often stood in stark contrast to one another. While the Russian administration wascharacterised by corruption and inefficiency, British rule in India was often more violent, and its subjects much more heavily taxed.Opening with the background to the political situationin Central Asia and a narrative of the Russian conquest itself, the book moves on to analyse official attitudes to Islam and to pre-colonial elites, and the earliest attempts to establish a functioning system of revenue collection. Uncovering the religious and ethnic composition of the military bureaucracy, and the social background, education and training of its personnel, Alexander Morrison assesses the competence of these officers vis-a-vis their Anglo-Indian counterparts. Subsequentchapters look at the role of the so-called 'native administration' in governing the countryside and collecting taxes, the attempt to administer the complex systems of irrigation leading from the Zarafshan andSyr-Darya rivers, and the n ...
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ISBN10: 0199547378, ISBN13: 9780199547371, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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