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The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia

The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia

Paperback

Series: Central Eurasia in Context

Central Asian History

ISBN10: 0822945975
ISBN13: 9780822945970
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: May 26 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia's Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions from the north and the south, rebellion, and then revolution. To date, efforts to identify the cause of this crisis have focused on the assumption that the region became isolated from early modern globalizing trends. The Bukharan Crisis exposes that explanation as a flawed relic of early Orientalist scholarship on the region.

In its place, Scott Levi identifies multiple causal factors that underpinned the Bukharan crisis. Some of these were interrelated and some independent, some unfolded over long periods while others shocked the region more abruptly, but they all converged in the early eighteenth century to the detriment of the Bukharan Khanate and those dependent upon it. Levi applies an integrative framework of analysis that repositions Central Asia in recent scholarship on multiple themes in early modern Eurasian and world history

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