The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-4039-7541-6 (ISBN)
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From the Silk Road to the Great Game, Central Asia has long been a region of great strategic, political, and economic importance.Central Asia is of growing visibility to the rest of the world. Home of the legendary Silk Road and Great Game, the region is of increasing influence due to oil, Islam, democracy, and terrorism. No other comprehensive atlas exists.This atlas graphically illuminates the region's history tracing back to the eight-seventh century B.C. From the spread of Islam to the invasion of the Mongols, the area has been at the crossroads of some of the world's most important developments, all succinctly explained in this book.
Rafis Abazov is an adjunct professor at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He worked as a Central Asian regional analyst for Moscow-based news agencies and newspapers and contributed annual analytical reports on Central Asia to various international analytical research centers, including the Freedom House and Transition-on-Line. He has published three books, including Historical Dictionary of Kyrgyzstan and Historical Dictionary of Turkmenistan and contributed a number of articles to edited volumes, including about 50 articles to various encyclopedias.
Introductory Maps * Early History, 6th Century B.C.-6th Century A.D. * Islamic Golden Age * Mongols and Decline of Central Asia * Era of Colonialism and Nation State Building * Post-Communism and Independence
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.4.2008 |
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Zusatzinfo | biography |
Verlagsort | Gordonsville |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 418 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4039-7541-8 / 1403975418 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4039-7541-6 / 9781403975416 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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