Central Asia. From the Age of Empires to the Present Day
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Central Asia. From the Age of Empires to the Present Day
19.99 €
Central Asia is still often thought of as a distant place, on the fringes of modern history. But in fact, the region, which includes Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and China’s Xinjiang province, stands at the crossroads of global events.
Adeeb Khalid presents the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to the present. After the 1700s, the region’s peoples came under Russian and Chinese rule. A Pakistani-American historian, Khalid shows how foreign conquest drew Central Asians into the global exchange of goods and ideas and led to closer ties with the rest of the world.
His research focuses on how the conquering empires and then the communist states of the USSR and China dealt with the region’s ethnic heterogeneity, its inherent national and cultural differences, and how historical forces and trends, from colonialism and social revolutions to nationalism and state modernization policies, shaped the modern face of Central Asia.
Adeeb Khalid presents the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to the present. After the 1700s, the region’s peoples came under Russian and Chinese rule. A Pakistani-American historian, Khalid shows how foreign conquest drew Central Asians into the global exchange of goods and ideas and led to closer ties with the rest of the world.
His research focuses on how the conquering empires and then the communist states of the USSR and China dealt with the region’s ethnic heterogeneity, its inherent national and cultural differences, and how historical forces and trends, from colonialism and social revolutions to nationalism and state modernization policies, shaped the modern face of Central Asia.
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