The Northwest Caucasus

Past, present, future

By Walter Richmond

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77615-8 | Published June 11th 2008 by Routledge.

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Muslim-Christian Relations in Central Asia

By Christian van Gorder

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-77608-0 | Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge.

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Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries

An Anthropological Perspective

By Laëtitia Atlani-Duault

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-44884-0 | Published December 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus

Post-Soviet Disorder

Edited by Moshe Gammer

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-42345-8 | Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power

By Bhavna Dave

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,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-36371-6 | Published September 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia

By Maria Elisabeth Louw

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 is...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41316-9 | Published April 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Russian Culture in Uzbekistan

One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

By David MacFadyen

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-34134-9 | Published April 26th 2006 by Routledge.

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Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia

Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924

By Seymour Becker

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32803-6 | Published April 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia

Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change

By Paul Georg Geiss

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-31177-9 | Published July 10th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Church of the East

A Concise History

By Wilhelm Baum, Dietmar W. Winkler

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...

ISBN: 978-0-415-29770-7 | Published March 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire

By Daniel Brower

The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule, by Russian...

ISBN: 978-0-415-29744-8 | Published November 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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Mongolia Today

Science, Culture, Environment and Development

Edited by Dendevin Badarch, Raymond A. Zilinskas

This is a wide-ranging collection of essays written by experts in the field. The variety of topics provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1598-5 | Published October 24th 2002 by Routledge.

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