The Discourse of Empire -- Conquest and Exile -- Orthodoxy: The Society for the Restoration of Orthodoxy in the Caucasus -- Narodnost': Russian Ethnographers and Caucasus Mountaineers -- Customary Law: Noble Peoples, Savage Mountaineers -- The Russian Shamil, 1859-1871 -- Russification and the Return of Conquest -- Conclusion: Empire and Nativism in the Russian Caucasus -- Afterword: Visualizing the Multi-ethnic Community in the Soviet Union
Summary
Orientalism and Empire describes the efforts of imperial integration and incorporation that emerged in the wake of the long war. Jersild discusses religion, ethnicity, archaeology, transcription of languages, customary law, and the fate of Shamil to illustrate the work of empire-builders and the emerging imperial imagination. Drawing on both Russian and Georgian materials from Tbilisi, he shows how shared cultural concerns between Russians and Georgians were especially important to the formation of the empire in the region
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index
