Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh

Under Solomon's throne : Uzbek visions of renewal in Osh /

Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences. Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have...

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Main Author: Liu, Morgan Y.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
©2012
Series:Central Eurasia in context.
Subjects:
Nativistic movements > Kyrgyzstan > Osh.
Post-communism > Kyrgyzstan > Osh.
Uzbeks > Kyrgyzstan > Osh > Government relations.
Uzbeks > Kyrgyzstan > Osh > Economic conditions.
Uzbeks > Kyrgyzstan > Osh > Social conditions.
Osh (Kyrgyzstan) > Politics and government.
Osh (Kyrgyzstan) > Ethnic relations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Interviews, Translations, and Transliteration
  • Introduction: A City for Thought
  • Chapter 1. Bazaar and Mediation
  • Chapter 2. Border and Post-Soviet Predicament
  • Chapter 3. Divided City and Relating to the State
  • Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Making Proper Persons
  • Chapter 5. House and Dwelling in the World
  • Chapter 6. Republic and Virtuous Leadership
  • Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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