Postcards from Stanland : journeys in Central Asia / David H. Mould.

By:

Mould, David H [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780821445372
0821445375

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postcards from StanlandDDC classification:

958/.042 23

LOC classification:

DS327.8 .M68 2016eb

Other classification:

LAN008000 | SOC052000 | BIO026000

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Contents:

Illustrations; Preface; 1: Travels in "Kyrzakhstan"; 2: Sacred Mountain and Silly Borders; 3: How Do You Say "Rump Roast"?; 4: Kasha, Honor, Dignity, and Revolution; 5: On and Off the Silk Road; 6: To Be a Kazakh Is to Be "Brave and Free"; 7: Father of Apples; 8: The President's Dream City; 9: Coal and Steel; 10: No Polygon, No Problem; 11: Wheat and Oil; 12: The Seven Lessons of Stanland; Notes; Glossary and Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Index

Scope and content: "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. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet 'Stanland' is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in the mid-1990s, academic and journalist David Mould's career took him to the region on Fulbright Fellowships and contracts as a media trainer and consultant for UNESCO and USAID, among others. In Postcards from Stanland, he takes readers along with him on his encounters with the people, landscapes, and customs of the diverse countries--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan--he came to love. He talks with teachers, students, politicians, environmental activists, bloggers, cab drivers, merchants, Peace Corps volunteers, and more. Until now, few books for a nonspecialist readership have been written on the region, and while Mould brings his own considerable expertise to bear on his account--for example, he is one of the few scholars to have conducted research on post-Soviet media in the region--the book is above all a tapestry of place and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the post-Soviet world"-- Provided by publisher.

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"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. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet 'Stanland' is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in the mid-1990s, academic and journalist David Mould's career took him to the region on Fulbright Fellowships and contracts as a media trainer and consultant for UNESCO and USAID, among others. In Postcards from Stanland, he takes readers along with him on his encounters with the people, landscapes, and customs of the diverse countries--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan--he came to love. He talks with teachers, students, politicians, environmental activists, bloggers, cab drivers, merchants, Peace Corps volunteers, and more. Until now, few books for a nonspecialist readership have been written on the region, and while Mould brings his own considerable expertise to bear on his account--for example, he is one of the few scholars to have conducted research on post-Soviet media in the region--the book is above all a tapestry of place and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the post-Soviet world"-- Provided by publisher.

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