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Central Asian Studies
New & Published Titles:
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power
Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union,…
read moreAugust 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48298-1 (Routledge)
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The Northwest Caucasus
Past, present, future
This is the first book to present a comprehensive history of the Northwest Caucasus. Based on extensive research, it describes the peoples of the Northwest…
read moreJune 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77615-8 (Routledge)
Muslim-Christian Relations in Central Asia
This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians…
read moreJune 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77608-0 (Routledge)
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Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries
An Anthropological Perspective
An anthropologist among aid workers. Her objective: to study that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44884-0 (Routledge)
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Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus
Post-Soviet Disorder
With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42345-8 (Routledge)
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Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a detailed account of how Islam…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41316-9 (Routledge)
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Russian Culture in Uzbekistan
One Language in the Middle of Nowhere
Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34134-9 (Routledge)
Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia
Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924
This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32803-6 (Routledge)
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Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia
Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change
This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31177-9 (Routledge)
The Church of the East
A Concise History
The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East. It covers the periods… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29770-7 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Confrontation and Negotiation in Central Asia: Securing the Indian Frontier, 1865-1895
By Martin Ewans
To be published March 1st 2010
The Kyrgyzs: A Modern History
By Rafiz Abazov
To be published September 20th 2009
Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan
By Wojciech Ostrowski
To be published June 30th 2009
The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence
By Erica Marat
To be published June 30th 2009
The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges
Edited by Amanda E. Wooden, Christoph H. Stefes
To be published May 26th 2009
Islamic Education in the Soviet Union and Its Successor States
Edited by Michael Kemper, Raoul Motika, Stefan Reichmuth
To be published May 20th 2009
Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order
By John Heathershaw
To be published April 22nd 2009
Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the 20th Century
By Irina Y. Morozova
To be published March 4th 2009