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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Liu, Morgan Y.
Imprint:	Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012. ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (328 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Central Eurasia in context Central Eurasia in context.
Subject:	Nativistic movements -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh. Post-communism -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh. Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Government relations. Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Economic conditions. Uzbeks -- Kyrgyzstan -- Osh -- Social conditions. Politics and government. Ethnic relations. Nativistic movements Post-communism Osh (Kyrgyzstan) -- Politics and government. Osh (Kyrgyzstan) -- Ethnic relations. Kyrgyzstan -- Osh Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140154

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ISBN:	9780822977926 0822977923 1306555868 9781306555869 9780822961772 0822961776
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region a.
Other form:	Print version: Liu, Morgan Y. Under Solomon's throne. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012

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