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ISLAM AND COLONIALISM "WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON SOVIET ASIA"

ISLAM AND COLONIALISM "WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON SOVIET ASIA"

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  • ISBN:978-0-7007-1765-1
  • EAN:9780700717651
  • Editorial: CURZON PRESS
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  • Número de la edición: 1
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  • Encuadernación:CARTONE
  • Nº Pág.:272
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By the late 1980s it was a widely held view in the West that the single greatest threat to the USSR was an Islamic inspired revolt in Central Asia. This did not occur. Myer seeks to explain how such an expectation could have developed and been sustained. Western thought on Central Asia, as it appeared in English, French, German and US sources, is placed in its political and intellectual context. It is argued that ideas about colonialism and the colonial dynamic unduly influenced Western understanding of Central Asian politics. The concept of colonialism is examined in depth and the contributions of the major scholars of the area assessed on a decade-by-decade basis, focussing on their understanding of Central Asia as a colonial society and on the role of Islam within it. Finally, a genealogy of ideas is offered to explain how a combination of political imperatives, sponsorship and the histories of the scholars involved, precluded the possibility of competing interpretations and has led to modern

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