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  • Lions of Kandaharby Rusty Bradley; Kevin Maurer

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 26.00

    One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to the theater who has only recently returned from combat there. Southern Afghanistan was slipping... more...

  • Islam and Colonialismby Will Myer

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 190.00

    Tracing the development of western thought about Central Asia, this book argues that for historical and political reasons, Central Asia was seen as being in a colonial relationship with Russia. Consequently, an anti-colonial revolution in Asia was seen as the greatest threat to the USSR. The book questions the suitability of the colonial model for... more...

  • Persian Documentsby Kondo Nobuaki

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95

    After the Mongol period, Persian was the official written language in Iran, Central Asia and India. A vast amount of documents relating to administration and social life were produced and yet, unlike Ottoman and Arabic documents, Persian historical resources have received very little critical attention. This book is the first to use Persian Documents... more...

  • Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asiaby Sally Cummings

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 44.95

    Approaching Central Asia from the perspective of geopolitics, transition, oil and stability, the authors provide a very broad and diverse analysis of the region, examining domestic and international developments since 1991. more...

  • Russia's Protectorates in Central Asiaby Seymour Becker

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95

    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 Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention, with the primary aim of preventing British expansion... more...

  • Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asiaby Paul Georg Geiss

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 190.00

    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 tsarist conquest of the region. It covers Turkman, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and other tribal societies, analyses the patrimonial state structures of the Emirate of Bukhara and... more...

  • The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asiaby Dr Arne Haugen

    Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 155.00

    This book examines the role of nation and nationality in the Soviet Union and analyzes the establishment of national republics in Soviet Central Asia. It argues that the originally nationally minded Soviet communists with their anti-nationalist attitudes came to view nation and national identity as valuable tools in state building. more...

  • Economic Autonomy and Democracyby Kelly M. McMann

    Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00

    In deciding whether to exercise their democratic rights, individuals first consider if they can risk government harassment at their workplaces. Colorful accounts of activists' decisions and government harassment in Russia and Kyrgyzstan and examples from around the world illustrate this argument. more...

  • Descent into Chaosby Ahmed Rashid

    Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 18.00

    After September 11th , Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia to review the catastrophic aftermath of America's failed war on terror. Called "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" by Christopher Hitchens, Rashid has shown... more...

  • Oil, Islam, and Conflictby Rob Johnson

    Reaktion Books 2007; US$ 29.00

    The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan while Chechnya still struggles under a shadow of violence, and the nations surrounding them are barely more stable. Add in the significant reserves scattered throughout Central Asia and you have a volatile political cocktail that makes the region, in Rob Johnson?s words, the ?new Middle East.? In Oil, Islam and... more...