Week 12: April 8 and 10

Lecture 20: The connected history of early modern Central Eurasia, with Scott Levi

Lecture 21: Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia and Siberia

• Golden, Chapter 8 (105-121)
• Babur (Thaxton, ed.), Baburnama, excerpts (long, but you can skim through. What kind of a person is Babur? How does he think, what interests him? Can you compare him to Kangxi?)
• Khalid, Chapters 4-6

Further reading:

Levi, Scott. The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia. University of Pittsburg Press, 2020 (ebook in Lauinger).

• Characterize the process whereby Russia came to control Siberia and Central Asia. How does it compare to Qing imperialism? to American manifest destiny? To ...