Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), is Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna. From 2007-2011 he was VolkswagenStiftung Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Halle/Saale He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).

'If social history is ‘one of the less fashionable intellectual enterprises of these days’, this edited volume more than makes the case for a revival of the discipline.(...) the overall accomplishments of this volume, which identifies exciting new directions of research in between, and beyond, these fragmented ‘singular stories.’Jennifer Griffiths, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, Central Asian Survey 2014.

• A Note on ConventionsList of FiguresList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION: ON THE SOCIAL IN CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY: NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF LEGAL RECORDS - PAOLO SARTORICHAPTER ONE: AMLĀKDĀRS, KHWĀJAS AND MULK LAND IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY AFTER THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST - ALEXANDER S. MORRISONCHAPTER TWO: MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS - BEATRICE PENATICHAPTER THREE: WHO SHOULD MANAGE THE WATER OF THE AMU-DARYA? CONTROVERSY OVER IRRIGATION CONCESSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KHIVA, 1913–1914 - AKIFUMI SHIOYACHAPTER FOUR: HIGH RANK AND POWER AMONG THE NORTHERN KIRGHIZ: TERMS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, 1845–1864 - DANIEL G. PRIORCHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMANCE AND POETICS IN KYRGYZ MEMORIAL FEASTS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY CATEGORIES -SVETLANA JACQUESSONCHAPTER SIX: USING TURKI-LANGUAGE QAZAQ LETTERS TO RECONSTRUCT LOCAL HISTORY OF THE 1820S-30S -VIRGINIA MARTINCHAPTER SEVEN: A MONTH AMONG QAZAQS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA: OBSERVATIONS ON ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN A NOMADIC ENVIRONMENT - ALLEN J. FRANKCHAPTER EIGHT: CREATING THE FAÇADE OF A DESPOTIC STATE: ON ĀQSAQĀLS IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY BUKHARA - ANDREAS WILDECHAPTER NINE: FATHERS AND SONS: RE-READINGS IN A SAMARQANDI PRIVATE ARCHIVE - THOMAS WELSFORDINDEX

Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), is Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna. From 2007-2011 he was VolkswagenStiftung Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Halle/Saale He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).

'If social history is ‘one of the less fashionable intellectual enterprises of these days’, this edited volume more than makes the case for a revival of the discipline.(...) the overall accomplishments of this volume, which identifies exciting new directions of research in between, and beyond, these fragmented ‘singular stories.’Jennifer Griffiths, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, Central Asian Survey 2014.

• A Note on ConventionsList of FiguresList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION: ON THE SOCIAL IN CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY: NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF LEGAL RECORDS - PAOLO SARTORICHAPTER ONE: AMLĀKDĀRS, KHWĀJAS AND MULK LAND IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY AFTER THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST - ALEXANDER S. MORRISONCHAPTER TWO: MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS - BEATRICE PENATICHAPTER THREE: WHO SHOULD MANAGE THE WATER OF THE AMU-DARYA? CONTROVERSY OVER IRRIGATION CONCESSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KHIVA, 1913–1914 - AKIFUMI SHIOYACHAPTER FOUR: HIGH RANK AND POWER AMONG THE NORTHERN KIRGHIZ: TERMS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, 1845–1864 - DANIEL G. PRIORCHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMANCE AND POETICS IN KYRGYZ MEMORIAL FEASTS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY CATEGORIES -SVETLANA JACQUESSONCHAPTER SIX: USING TURKI-LANGUAGE QAZAQ LETTERS TO RECONSTRUCT LOCAL HISTORY OF THE 1820S-30S -VIRGINIA MARTINCHAPTER SEVEN: A MONTH AMONG QAZAQS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA: OBSERVATIONS ON ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN A NOMADIC ENVIRONMENT - ALLEN J. FRANKCHAPTER EIGHT: CREATING THE FAÇADE OF A DESPOTIC STATE: ON ĀQSAQĀLS IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY BUKHARA - ANDREAS WILDECHAPTER NINE: FATHERS AND SONS: RE-READINGS IN A SAMARQANDI PRIVATE ARCHIVE - THOMAS WELSFORDINDEX

Paolo Sartori, Ph.D. (2006), is Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna. From 2007-2011 he was VolkswagenStiftung Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Halle/Saale He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill).

'If social history is ‘one of the less fashionable intellectual enterprises of these days’, this edited volume more than makes the case for a revival of the discipline.(...) the overall accomplishments of this volume, which identifies exciting new directions of research in between, and beyond, these fragmented ‘singular stories.’Jennifer Griffiths, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, Central Asian Survey 2014.

• A Note on ConventionsList of FiguresList of ContributorsINTRODUCTION: ON THE SOCIAL IN CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY: NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF LEGAL RECORDS - PAOLO SARTORICHAPTER ONE: AMLĀKDĀRS, KHWĀJAS AND MULK LAND IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY AFTER THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST - ALEXANDER S. MORRISONCHAPTER TWO: MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS - BEATRICE PENATICHAPTER THREE: WHO SHOULD MANAGE THE WATER OF THE AMU-DARYA? CONTROVERSY OVER IRRIGATION CONCESSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KHIVA, 1913–1914 - AKIFUMI SHIOYACHAPTER FOUR: HIGH RANK AND POWER AMONG THE NORTHERN KIRGHIZ: TERMS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, 1845–1864 - DANIEL G. PRIORCHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMANCE AND POETICS IN KYRGYZ MEMORIAL FEASTS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY CATEGORIES -SVETLANA JACQUESSONCHAPTER SIX: USING TURKI-LANGUAGE QAZAQ LETTERS TO RECONSTRUCT LOCAL HISTORY OF THE 1820S-30S -VIRGINIA MARTINCHAPTER SEVEN: A MONTH AMONG QAZAQS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA: OBSERVATIONS ON ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN A NOMADIC ENVIRONMENT - ALLEN J. FRANKCHAPTER EIGHT: CREATING THE FAÇADE OF A DESPOTIC STATE: ON ĀQSAQĀLS IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY BUKHARA - ANDREAS WILDECHAPTER NINE: FATHERS AND SONS: RE-READINGS IN A SAMARQANDI PRIVATE ARCHIVE - THOMAS WELSFORDINDEX