New Books in Central Asian Studies
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Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Old Lhasa: A Biography of a Sacred City
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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Ryan Schweitzer, "Homosexuality in Central Asia: Stories of Hardship and Hope" (B&N Press, 2026)
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Nabi Sahak, "Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Benjamin J. Nourse, "The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism"(Lexington Books, 2025)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Zubeda Jalalzai, "Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Nicholas Birman Trickett, "Empire of Austerity: Russia and the Breaking of Eurasia" (Hurst, 2025)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Adeeb Khalid, "Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Zohra Saed, "Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestan" (CUNY/Lost and Found, 2018)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Chris Aslan, "Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia" (Icon Books, 2024)
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May 29, 2025 |
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Cotton, Central Asia and the New Great Game
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Vicky Davis, "Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet Union" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Marianne Kamp, "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Samuel Hodgkin, "Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Victoria Soyan Peemot, "The Horse in My Blood: Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Masha Kirasirova, "The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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J. Arch Getty and Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Reflections on Stalinism" (Northern Illinois UP, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Ali Igmen, "Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2012)
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Zeev Levin, "Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939" (Brill, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Michael David-Fox, "The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Yerkebulan Sairambay, "New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg, "The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism" (CEU Press, 2023)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Eren Tasar, “Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah et al., "Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World" (U Groningen Press, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Christopher P. Atwood, "The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese Sources" (Hackett, 2021)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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The Secret History of the Mongols
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Yiannis Kokosalakis, "Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921–1941" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Sofia Samatar, "The White Mosque: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2022)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Jonan Pilet, "Nomad, Nomad" (Bound to Brew, 2021)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The Transformation of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Gillian Tan, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" (Springer, 2018)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Jeff Fearnside, "Ships in the Desert" (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2022)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Regine A. Spector, "Order at the Bazaar: Power and Trade in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2017)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Vladislav M. Zubok, "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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James Mark and Paul Betts, "Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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John Keay, "Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Anton Weiss-Wendt and Nanci Adler, eds., "The Future of the Soviet Past: The Politics of History in Putin's Russia" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Agha Bayramov, "Constructive Competition in the Caspian Sea Region" (Routledge, 2022)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Waleed Ziad, "Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Ian W. Campbell, "Knowledge and the Ends of Empire: Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917" (Cornell UP, 2017)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Adrienne Edgar, "Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Central Asia Under Brussels’ and Moscow’s Eyes
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May 04, 2022 |
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Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen, "Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Pamela Kyle Crossley, "Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Mark Edele, "Debates on Stalinism" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Togzhan Kassenova, "Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Mark Edele, "Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Timothy K. Blauvelt, "Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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David L. Hoffmann, "The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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David Moon et al., "Place and Nature: Essays in Russian History" (White Horse Press, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Timur Dadabaev, "Decolonizing Central Asian International Relations: Beyond Empires" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Rico Isaacs and Erica Marat, "Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Marlene Laruelle, "Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia" (UCL Press, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Edward Schatz, "Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Rano Turaeva and Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Paul Werth, "1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, "ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters Along the Silk Roads" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Bagila Bukharbayeva, "The Vanishing Generation: Revolution, Religion, and Disappearance in Modern Uzbekistan" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Riaz Dean, "Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in 19th Century-Central Asia, India and Tibet" (Casemate, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Marie Favereau, "The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Eric Schluessel, "Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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J. Andrew Bush, "Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
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David Rainbow, "Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2019)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia," (U California Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2021 |
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David Brophy, "In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Alexander Morrison, "The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Khatchig Mouradian, "The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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James Pickett, "Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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David Tobin, "Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Aubrey Menard, "Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East" (PRH SEA, 2020)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Erica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Jonathan Lee, "Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Sean Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Iraj Bashiri, "The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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Diana T. Kudaibergenova, "Toward Nationalizing Regimes: Conceptualizing Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Scott Levi, "The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia" (U Pittsburgh, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Julia Obertreis, "Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991" (V and R Unipress, 2017)
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art" (U Hawaii Press 2019)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Danielle Ross, "Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Maya K. Peterson, "Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Shoshana Keller, "Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Richard Pomfret, "The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Marlene Laruelle, "The Nazarbayev Generation: Youth in Kazakhstan" (Lexington Books, 2019)
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and Day: A Novel" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Joanna Lillis, "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan" (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Rico Issacs, "Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia" (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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James Tharin Bradford, "Poppies, Power, and Politics: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Robert Haug, "The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia" (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Jeff Sahadeo, "Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Kate Harris, "Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road" (Dey Street Books, 2019)
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Richard Foltz, "History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East" (I.B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Botakoz Kassymbekova, "Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Nicholas Breyfogle, "Eurasian Environments: Nature and Ecology in Imperial Russia and Soviet History" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Ben Gatling, "Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Till Mostowlansky, "Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistan’s Pamir Highway" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, "Securing the Belt and Road" (Red Globe Press, 2018)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Jinping Wang, "In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China 1200-1600" (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Alun Thomas, “Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin” (I.B. Tauris, 2018)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Tom Cliff, “Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Artemy M. Kalinovsky, “Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan” (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Holly Gayley, “Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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May 10, 2018 |
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Jonathan Daly, “Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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Valerie Kivelson and Ronald Suny, “Russia’s Empires” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Christine E. Evans, “Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Christopher J. Lee, “Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition” (Lexington Books, 2017)
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Megan Adamson Sijapati and Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, “Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya” (Routledge, 2016)
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Victor Taki, “Tsar and Sultan: Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire” (I.B. Taurus, 2016)
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Justin M. Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State (U. Washington Press, 2016)
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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David Brophy, “Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Jul 13, 2016 |
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Adeeb Khalid, “Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR” (Cornell UP, 2015)
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Apr 27, 2016 |
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Timothy Nunan, “Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Apr 08, 2016 |
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Julie Billaud, “Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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Jun 10, 2015 |
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F. M. Gocek, “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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May 11, 2015 |
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Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Bedross Der Matossian, “Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Stanford UP, 2014)
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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Jacob Dalton, “The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism” (Yale University Press, 2011)
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Dec 25, 2014 |
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Rian Thum, “The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Alexander Cooley, “Great Game, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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Willard Sunderland, “The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014)
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Sep 04, 2014 |
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Sener Akturk, “Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Jun 11, 2014 |
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Sienna R. Craig, “Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine” (University of California Press, 2012)
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Nov 03, 2013 |
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James A. Milward, “The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Aug 05, 2013 |
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Christopher I. Beckwith, “Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton University Press, 2012)
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Jan 22, 2013 |
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Morgan Liu, “Under Solomon’s Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012)
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Oct 10, 2012 |
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Alexander Morrison, “Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868-1910: A Comparison with British India” (Oxford UP, 2008)
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Vera Tolz, “Russia’s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Oct 05, 2011 |