Description: This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709-1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley.
Review Quotes: Seldom have I read a history of modern Central Asia so beautifully written, clearly constructed, and deeply researched. Levi's fine prose, wit, and erudition make this a readable, original, and endlessly interesting book.-- "Paolo Sartori, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna"