Svetlana Gorshenina, L’Invention de l’Asie centrale: Histoire du concept de la Tartarie à l’Eurasie (Genève: Droz, 2014), 704 pp.
Svetlana Gorshenina, The Invention of Central Asia: History of the Tartary concept in Eurasia (Geneva: Droz, 2014), 704 pp.

Summary/Abstract: This beautifully produced (and therefore quite expensive) book is the second monograph which the franco-uzbekistani researcher Svetlana Gorshenina has published from her ponderous doctoral dissertation. Her first book explored the constructions of frontiers in colonial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Central Asia by questioning the notion of the “frontier” in general, and of the “natural frontier” in particular. In the present book, Gorshenina decorticates the concept of “Central Asia” as it emerged through the stratification of words, knowledge, and ideologies in the Western (especially Franco- and Germanophone cultural traditions) and Russian worlds.

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