Letters From the Land of Fear: Intimacy, Beauty & Death in Central Asia, Calvin White
Автор: Aye Raffael, Schweizer Manuel, Roth Tobias Название: Birds of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan ISBN: 069115337X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691153377 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 41380.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From ground jays, larks, and raptors to warblers, nuthatches, and snowfinches, this book covers 618 species - including all residents, migrants, and vagrants - and 143 superb plates depict every species and many distinct plumages and races. It contains introductory sections on the land and its birds, and colour maps.
In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.
Автор: Eren Tasar Название: Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia, 1943-1991 (Religion and Global Politics) ISBN: 0190652101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190652104 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 91870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rather than merely "surviving" Soviet rule, Islam in Central Asia shaped, and was shaped by, the social and political context of Communism. Relying on recently declassified Central Asian archival sources, most of them never seen before by historians, Soviet and Muslim offers a radical new reading of Islam`s resilience and evolution under atheist rule.
Автор: Robert Haug Название: The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia ISBN: 1788310039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788310031 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 116160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the ‘eastern frontier’ in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasi-independent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions.
Автор: Cameron, Sarah I., Название: The hungry steppe : ISBN: 1501730436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501730436 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 47610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Drawing upon state and Communist party documents, as well as oral history and memoir accounts in Russian and in Kazakh, Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.
Through the most violent of means the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clearly delineated boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economic system; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But this state-driven modernization project was uneven. Ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves were integrated into the Soviet system in precisely the ways that Moscow had originally hoped. The experience of the famine scarred the republic for the remainder of the Soviet era and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991.
Cameron uses her history of the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting, in particular, the creation of a new Kazakh national identity, and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.
Название: Novel measurement and assessment tools for monitoring and management of land and water resources in agricultural landscapes of Central Asia / ISBN: 3319010166 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319010168 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 148020.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book details methods for measuring, assessing, forecasting and controlling processes in agricultural landscapes. It proposes solutions for initiating sustainable development and focuses on methodologies with application potential for Central Asia.
Автор: 109327 Seedsowers Название: Intimacy with Christ: Her Letters Now in Modern English ISBN: 0940232367 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940232365 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Within the pages of this book, you will find spiritual insight and counsel from church history`s best known woman. Her words speak to you of how to know your Lord intimately.
Название: Land Tenure Journal 2/2015 (Trilingual Edition): Thematic Issue on Property Valuation and Taxation in Europe and Central Asia ISBN: 9250096828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789250096827 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 45270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Addresses valuation and taxation as key elements in the administration of tenure in the Europe and Central Asia regions. It emphasises the core role of these elements in promoting broader social, economic, environmental and sustainable development objectives. It also highlights their role in effective financing of decentralized government levels and local provision of services and infrastructure.
Автор: Hartmut Vogtmann; Nikolai Dobretsov Название: Environmental Security and Sustainable Land Use - with special reference to Central Asia ISBN: 1402044925 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402044922 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 135090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presents important aspects of environmental security and sustainable land use in general and in particular for Central Asia. This book covers: the environmental consequences of climate change; sustainable land use and regional development; sustainable development in mountain and steppe regions; and others.
