TY - BOOK ID - 85646765 TI - The Russian conquest of Central Asia : a study in imperial expansion, 1814-1914 PY - 2021 SN - 1009028545 1139343386 1107030307 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Asia, Central KW - Russia KW - Central Asia KW - Soviet Central Asia KW - Tūrān KW - Turkestan KW - West Turkestan KW - Asia KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Colonization KW - History KW - Relations KW - Territorial expansion KW - Soviet Union UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85646765 AB - The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a hundred years. From the earliest conflicts on the steppe frontier in the 1830s to the annexation of the Pamirs in the early 1900s, he gives a detailed account of the logistics and operational history of Russian wars against Khoqand, Bukhara and Khiva, the capture of Tashkent and Samarkand, and the bloody subjection of the Turkmen, as well as Russian diplomatic relations with China, Persia and the British Empire. Based on archival research in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and India, memoirs and Islamic chronicles, this book explains how Russia conquered a colonial empire in Central Asia, with consequences that still resonate today. ER -