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Kazakhstan
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture more...
A Hedonist's Guide to Almaty and Astana
Hg2 2011; US$ 12.00Kazakhstan is thriving it is fast becoming the business hub of Central Asia. Petro-dollars are flowing through the traditional and modern capitals of Almaty and Astana and businesses, tourists and investors are flocking there in droves. To cater to this smart hotels, gourmet restaurants and fast-paced bars are springing up in both cities. The... more...
Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has an impressive record of economic growth under the... more...
Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 34.95Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. Much of the existing narrative revolves around the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. But his life can only be understood in the context of the land in which he was born, raised and became... more...
The Kazakhs
BRILL 2009; US$ 63.00Here is a well-informed, concise introduction to the culture and history of the vast territory of Kazakhstan, equivalent to the size of Western Europe, located at the centre of geographical Eurasia. more...
Kazakhstan
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2010; US$ 18.99At the outset of independence 18 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon bring economic prosperity. It appeared that democracy was beginning to take hold in this newly independent state. Nearly two decades later, Kazakhstan has achieved... more...
Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 152.00This study concentrates upon the socio-political and nationalist views of three influential representatives of the early twentieth-century Kazak intelligentsia: Alikhan Bokeilhanov, Akhmet Baitursynov, and Mukhamedzhan Seralin. The resulting discourse on literature, education, and politics shaped the Kazak nationalist movement before 1920. This study... more...
Law and Custom in the Steppe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 195.00Offers a reconstruction of the social, cultural and legal history of the Middle Horde Kazakh steppe in the 19th century using largely untapped archival records from Kazakhstan and Russia and contemporary reports. It explores the cross-cultural encounter of laws, customs and judicial practices in the process of Russian empire-building at the local level. more...
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