Orientalism and Empire. North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

Preface Russia’s relationship to the North Caucasus has again turned violent, as it has so many times in the past, and a collect ...

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1 The Discourse of Empire Our activities in the Caucasus are reminiscent of the many tragedies of the early conquest of America ...

4 Orientalism and Empire transformed his experience and the event into a story, comprehensible to officials in Tbilisi. “And so ...

5 The Discourse of Empire Mamkheg, Makhosh, and Beslenei.^8 In sum, the region presented to the Russians a series of “barely com ...

6 Orientalism and Empire the significance of exploring a culture at its edges or margins in order to gain insight into its value ...

7 The Discourse of Empire Russian (rossiiskoe) lands” pose a series of contrasts to the European experience. For good reason, sc ...

8 Orientalism and Empire Russians from the German Romantics. Ilia Chavchavadze frequently reviewed new trends in literature and ...

9 The Discourse of Empire transformed folk tales and ethnographic reports into literature, ex- plained to a reviewer in the 1880 ...

10 Orientalism and Empire the imperial community. A more distant but also important source of inspiration for the rethinking of ...

11 The Discourse of Empire the peoples of the region, reminding us that the empire was indeed “rossiiskii” rather than “russkii. ...

2 Conquest and Exile In this year of 1864 a deed has been accomplished almost without precedent in history: not one of the mount ...

13 Conquest and Exile On this frontier also, Cossacks fought the elements, constructed and manned fortresses, and defended thems ...

14 Orientalism and Empire Russian Empire’s southern borders were clarified by 1828 after a fur- ther series of wars. The Russian ...

15 Conquest and Exile fighting a losing battle against Turkish contraband ships, as one suc- cessful run could make up for the c ...

16 Orientalism and Empire policy was not eternally hostile, but vacillated from what Andreas Kappeler calls “pragmatic flexibili ...