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Postcards from Stanland : Journeys in Central Asia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (333 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445372
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postcards from StanlandDDC classification:
  • 958/.042
LOC classification:
  • DS327.8.M68 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- One. Travels in "Kyrzakhstan" -- Two. Sacred Mountain and Silly Borders -- Three. How Do You Say "Rump Roast"? -- Four. Kasha, Honor, Dignity, and Revolution -- Five. On and Off the Silk Road -- Six. To Be a Kazakh Is to Be "Brave and Free" -- Seven. Father of Apples -- Eight. The President's Dream City -- Nine. Coal and Steel -- Ten. No Polygon, no Problem -- Eleven. Wheat and Oil -- Twelve. The Seven Lessons from Stanland -- Notes -- Glossary and Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.
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Intro -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- One. Travels in "Kyrzakhstan" -- Two. Sacred Mountain and Silly Borders -- Three. How Do You Say "Rump Roast"? -- Four. Kasha, Honor, Dignity, and Revolution -- Five. On and Off the Silk Road -- Six. To Be a Kazakh Is to Be "Brave and Free" -- Seven. Father of Apples -- Eight. The President's Dream City -- Nine. Coal and Steel -- Ten. No Polygon, no Problem -- Eleven. Wheat and Oil -- Twelve. The Seven Lessons from Stanland -- Notes -- Glossary and Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan.

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