ABSTRACT

Traditional Economy of the Protectorates The economic impact, as distinguished from the economic motives, of nineteenth-century imperialism is an undeniable fact. All lands affected by this latter-day expansion of Europe were in some degree drawn into the world-wide system of economic relationships that had as its focus the industrialized West. Nor were Bukhara and Khiva exceptions to the rule, despite the fact that the great power which for them represented the West was itself barely and hesitantly beginning to embark on the path of industrialization. Economic development is a relative matter, and between Russia and her Central Asian protectorates there was no comparison.