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The Legacy of the Soviet Union
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 132.00The Legacy of the Soviet Union offers a distillation by a group of eminent scholars of their experience of the post-Soviet years. Analysis of the post-Soviet landscape is accompanied by meditations on the impact of the post-Soviet transition on both policy-makers and academics. more...
Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00A study of the role of clan networks in Central Asia from the early twentieth century through 2004. more...
The Oil and the Glory
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 30.00Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn?t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world?s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a... more...
Russian-American Relations
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 168.00This is a collective endeavour to highlight the role of Islam in the emerging pattern of relations between Russia and the United States. It highlights particularly the role that the two autonomous republics within the Russian Federation - Tatarstan and Bashkortostan - play in Eurasia. more...
Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals
Brepols Publishers 2001; US$ 77.00The selected essays in this volume deal with the subject of conversion across the full chronological, geographical and religious expanse of medieval Europe and central Asia. more...
Eternal Iran
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00Exploring continuities and changes, this book provides the historical backdrop crucial to understanding how Iranian pride and sense of victimization combine to make its politics contentious and potentially dangerous. more...
Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Providing 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 is understood and practised among ordinary Muslims in the region, focusing in particular on Uzbekistan. It shows how individuals negotiate understandings of Islam as an important marker for identity,... more...
Hogs in the Shadows
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 15.00There is a special breed of Marine for whom the prey is the enemy?and every day is hunting season. This Marine is a HOG?a Hunter of Gunmen. These are the gripping, gut-wrenching true stories of those Marines in Iraq whose sole purpose on the battlefield is to eliminate the enemy?one combatant at a time. Every time a HOG puts his eye to the glass,... more...
Urban Life in Post-Soviet Asia
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism. It encompasses Tashkent, Almaty, Astana and Ulan-Ude: four cities with quite different responses... more...
The History of the Central Asian Republics
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 45.00Delve into Central Asia's complex history to learn how the nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have evolved through the centuries to become cultural hotspots in recent years. more...









