The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Islamic Area Studies, 3)

Book info: The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Islamic Area Studies, 3) (Hardcover, 372 pages) – Brill, 2016. Language: English.

In The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Jin Noda examines the foreign relations of the Kazakh Chinggisid sultans and the Russian and Qing empires during the 18th and 19th centuries. Noda makes use of both Russian and Qing archival documents as well as local Islamic sources. Through analysis of each party’s claims –mainly reflected in the Russian-Qing negotiations regarding Central Eurasia–, the book describes the role played by the Kazakh nomads in tying together the three regions of eastern Kazakh steppe, Western Siberia, and Xinjiang. Editorial Reviews About the Author Jin Noda, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Waseda Insitute for Advanced Study, Tokyo, Japan. He has published many works on the history of Central Eurasia, including A Collection of Documents from the Kazakh Sultans to the Qing Dynasty (2010).