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  • - Gender, Oral Culture and Song
    von Carole Blackwell
    81,00 €

    This study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs.

  • von Luca (previously Unviersity of Naples "L'Orientale" Anceschi
    71,00 - 214,00 €

    This book investigates the roles that ideas and constructs associated with Eurasia have played in the making of Kazakhstan's foreign policy during the Nazarbaev era.

  • - Institutional Transformation in Kyrgyzstan
    von University of London, UK) Scott & David (previously School of Oriental and African Studies
    71,00 - 226,00 €

  • von Nigora Djalilova
    214,00 €

  • - From State Farms to Private Flocks
     
    53,00 €

    This collection traces how pastoralists have coped with the challenges of change in their precarious position in a part of the world with a long-tradition of livestock keeping.

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    226,00 €

    Xinjiang is the `pivot of Asiä, where the frontiers of China, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia approach each other. This book offers a new perspective on the region, with a focus on social, economic and political developments in Xinjiang in modern and contemporary times. It is of interest to those studying in Chinese and Central Asian politics and society, International Relations and Security Studies.

  • - The Uzbek Experience
    von Germany) Turaeva & Rano (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
    77,00 - 238,00 €

  • - Uzbekistan's Soviet Past
    von Japan) Dadabaev & Timur (University of Tsukuba
    81,00 - 238,00 €

  • - The Ismaili Community in Tajikistan
    von Otambek (University of London Mastibekov
    237,00 €

    This book explores the unfolding of world history in a remote corner of Central Asia: the region of Badakhshan. It offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the Ismaili community in Tajikistan and analyses the ways in which expressions of political and religious authority have evolved and how they have been adapted to different political contexts and radical social upheaval. Skilfully applying an interdisciplinary approach, this book challenges the ways religious and secular categories have been distinguished in recent scholarship

  • - Revivalists, Modernists and Free Will
    von Sarfraz Khan
    39,00 - 64,00 €

  • - The Rise of Nations under Stalin
    von UK.) Yilmaz & Harun (University of Oxford
    227,00 €

  • - Science between Marx and the Market
    von UK) Amsler & Sarah (Kingston University
    75,00 €

    Through historical and ethnographic research and use of local scholarly works, this book provides an analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia.

  • - Western Perspectives on Soviet Asia
    von Will Myer
    76,00 €

    This book questions the suitability of the colonial model for understanding Soviet Asia's recent political history and challenges many of the assumptions which underlay the adoption of such a model.

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    226,00 €

    This book provides local perspectives on religion, security, history, geopolitics and geostrategy in South Asia and Central Asia in an integrated manner. Presenting a holistic and updated view of the developments inside and across South and Central Asia, it offers coherent and concise analyses by experts on the region.

  • - A Native Chronicle of Nineteenth Century Central Asia
    von Timur Beisembiev
    78,00 - 286,00 €

    This unique biography of Alimqul Amir-i Lashkar, commander-in-chief of the Kokand army in 1863-1865 is devoted to the history of the Kokand khanate, a state that played a great role in Central Asian history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • - Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital
    von Eric W. Sievers
    88,00 €

    Draws on the author's experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), and the turn of these states towards despotism.

  • - Aspects of Transition
     
    85,00 €

    Examines the transition Central Asia underwent in the twentieth century following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet colonial legacy and the attempts of new states to build secular states within the radical Islamic world.

  • - Politics, Energy and Security
     
    228,00 €

    Reflects the particular concerns of each of the Caspian countries, which with contributions from a host of international experts offer a unique perspective on the prospects and priorities for long-term development round the Caspian basin.

  • - The Trials of Independence
    von Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili & Frederic Grare
    76,00 - 285,00 €

    Examines the causes of the post-independence turmoil, and analyses social and political dynamics at work throughout Central Asia.

  • - Uzbekistan under Authoritarianism
    von USA) Spechler & Martin C. (Indiana University-Purdue University
    75,00 - 227,00 €

    Examines the economic reforms and material progress of the Central Asian republics after becoming independent from the Soviet Union, focusing on the largest of these states: Ukbekistan. This book considers the region's abundant energy resources and prospects for development.

  • - Positive Neutrality and the consolidation of the Turkmen Regime
    von Luca Anceschi
    79,00 - 273,00 €

    Turkmenistan, an independent nation since 1991, is a strategically important Central Asian state. This book covers the most significant period of the establishment of the Turkmen political regime. It deals with the Doctrine of Positive Neutrality, which constituted the theoretical backbone for the foreign policy of post-Soviet Turkmenistan.

  • - The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia
     
    273,00 €

    The Caspian Basin region has boomed since the late 1990s due to oil discoveries, pipelines that have diversified countries' transport options and world oil prices that have risen from below $10 in 1998 to $70 in 2006. This book analyzes the experience of the Caspian countries during the oil boom.

  • - Politics, Energy and Security
     
    90,00 €

    The Caspian redefines a Caspian debate long characterized by one-sided and politically motivated analyses and, at times, fantastic reporting. Bringing together a range of influential voices from academia, the media, the oil industry, civil service, the military and diplomatic corps, this book rewrites the region's recent history.

  • - Lessons not learned
     
    54,00 €

    Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to a market economy by tracing the impact of natural resource endowment.

  • - The Soviet Legacy
     
    226,00 €

    Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

  • - Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
    von Farideh Heyat
    76,00 - 284,00 €

    This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan.

  • von Michal Biran
    79,00 €

    This work examines Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, who was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. It focuses on how, in the 1270s, Qaidu succeeded in establishing a kingdom of the house of Ogedei in central Asia.

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