01572 a2200409 4500 1138862703 20250317100404.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138862708 Taylor & Francis GBP 45.99 BB 01 eng QRP thema JP thema NHF thema GTM thema QRA thema 1F bisac 1DT bisac HRH bic JP bic HBJF bic GTB bic HRA bic 1F bisac 1DV bisac POL000000 bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 958.0429 bisac Will Myer Islam and Colonialism Western Perspectives on Soviet Asia 1 Oxford Routledge 20150609 272 p Tracing the development of western thought about Central Asia, this book argues that for historical and political reasons, Central Asia was seen as being in a colonial relationship with Russia. Consequently, an anti-colonial revolution in Asia was seen as the greatest threat to the USSR. The book questions the suitability of the colonial model for understanding the region's recent political history and challenges many of the assumptions which underlay the adoption of such a model, and examines how this one interpretation came to dominate western discourse to the virtual exclusion of all others. 1597 1597