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Description

1. viii, 227 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Uniform title

1. Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Subject

1. Slavery
2. Slave trade
3. Sklaverei
4. Slavery > Asia, Central > History > 19th century
5. Slave trade > Asia, Central > History > 19th century
6. History
7. Zentralasien
8. 1800-1899
9. Asia, Central
10. Sklavenhandel

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. The setting: Russia, Iran, and the slaves of the Khanates -- Beyond the bazaars: geographies of the slave trade in Central Asia -- From despair to liberation: Mirza Mahmud Taq Ashtiyan's ten years of slavery -- The slaves' world: jobs, roles and families -- From slaves to serfs: manumission along the Kazakh frontier -- The Khan as Russian agent: native informants and abolition -- The conquest of Khiva and the myth of Russian abolitionism in Central Asia.

Call number

1. JFE 18-8506

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Eden, Jeff, author.

Title

1. Slavery and empire in Central Asia / Jeff Eden.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
2. Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9781108666251

LCCN

1. 2018021674

Other standard identifier

1. 40028478241

ISBN

1. 9781108470513 hardcover
2. 1108470513 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 18-8506