The Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire : A Portrait of a Local Intermediary in Russian Central Asia (Islamic Area Studies)

The The Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire offers a vivid description of the dynamism and dilemmas of empire-building in nomadic Central Asia from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, through reconstructing the biography of a Qїrghїz chieftain, Shabdan Jantay uulu (ca. 1839-1912).