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

Contents

Prefaceix

Illustrations and mapsxiii

1 The Discourse of Empire 3

2 Conquest and Exile 12

3 Orthodoxy: The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy

in the Caucasus 38

4 Narodnost‘: Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus

Mountaineers 59

5 Customary Law: Noble Peoples, Savage

Mountaineers 89

6 The Russian Shamil, 1859–18 71110

7 Russification and the Return of Conquest 126

Conclusion: Empire and Nativism in the Russian

Caucasus 145

Afterword: Visualizing the Multi-ethnic Community in

the Soviet Union 155

Notes 161

Bibliography 215

Index 247

21737_mm.book Page vii Monday, January 21, 2002 9:38 AM