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“ingvar svanberg”

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  • Contemporary Kazaks

    Cultural and Social Perspectives

    by Ingvar Svanberg ...
    This is the first volume of field work, based on western ethnological standard, about the Kazakhs of Kazakhstan since Alfred E. Hudson's work published in 1938. Based on fieldwork conducted throughout the region, the various articles reflect the contemporary life of rural and urban Kazakhs. A common theme is the socio-cultural aspects of how their way of life has changed since independence. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • China's Last Nomads

    History and Culture of China's Kazaks

    by Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg ...
    This study, based on Chinese publications and archival materials as well as on recent fieldwork, provides an up-to-date treatment of Kazak history and culture, emphasizing the Kazaks in 20th-century China and, in particular, their status today as one of China's minority nationalities. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Islam Outside the Arab World

    by Ingvar Svanberg, David Westerlund ...
    Today about 85 per cent of the world population of Muslims live in areas outside the Arab world, and due to population growth, missionary endeavours and migration, the number of Muslims in these areas is rising rapidly. This volume presents the spread and character of Islam in many non-Arab countries, focusing particularly on the contemporary situation. The book deals with the great variety and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Central Asia

    A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

    by Adeeb Khalid ...
    A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world eventsCentral Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    by David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Eurasian Crossroads

    A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated

    by James Millward ...
    Since antiquity, the vast Central Eurasian region of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkestan, has stood at the crossroads of China, India, the Middle East, and Europe, playing a pivotal role in the social, cultural, and political histories of Asia and the world. Today, it comprises one-sixth of the territory of the People’s Republic of China and borders India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, ... Read more

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  • China, Xinjiang and Central Asia

    History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century

    Edited by Colin Mackerras, Michael Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Central Asia and Xinjiang – the far north-western province of China – are of increasing international importance. The United States, having established military bases in Central Asia after September 2001, has now become a force in what was previously predominantly a Russian sphere of influence; whilst China, Russia and Iran all continue to exert strong influence. These external, international ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

    by Justin M. Jacobs ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the ... Read more

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  • Empires of Eurasia

    How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security

    by Jeffrey Mankoff ...
    How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international order“This is a must read to understand the backstory of conflicts from Crimea to Xinjiang.”—Fiona Hill, author of There Is Nothing for You HereEurasia’s major powers—China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey—increasingly intervene across their borders while seeking to pull their smaller ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • China's Borderlands

    The Faultline of Central Asia

    by Steven Parham ...
    This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised 'Silk Road' sense of fraternity. In fact, relations between the people of this region are tense, and border violence is escalating - even as the identity and nationality of the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Silk Road

    A New History

    by Valerie Hansen ...
    The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Kosovo : What Everyone Needs To Know

    by Tim Judah ...
    On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central-geographically, historically, and politically-to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both ... Read more

    $12.39 USD