The Central Asian World
Edited By Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Madeleine Reeves This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia. Established and emerging scholars of the region critically interrogate the idea of a ‘Central Asian World’ at the intersection of post-Soviet, Persianate, East and South Asian worlds. Encompassing chapters on life between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Xinjiang, this...
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia. Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence Edited By Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Beatrice Penati This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to glaciated peaks. The volume brings into conversation scholarship from history...
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Alexander Morrison The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people – most of them Muslims – to the Tsar’s domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a hundred years....
The Great Game, 1856–1907
Evgeny Sergeev The Great Game, 1856–1907. Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia “The Great Game, 1856–1907” presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary...
