S. Frederick Starr

Ferghana Valley

The Heart of Central Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With some twelve million inhabitants, the Ferghana valley is one of the most densely populated places in the world. It is also the most volatile region of formerly Soviet Central Asia. Not only is the area ethnically and linguistically diverse, it is politically divided, with parts ruled by three different statesUzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Kyrgyz Republicwhose distant capital cities all relegate Ferghana to their respective peripheries. These complexities make a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding of the Ferghana region all the more elusive. In order to construct this analysis, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute assembled an international, interdisciplinary team of experts on the region. Their carefully planned, collaboratively authored chapters cover the historical and topical terrain with unmatched depth and breadth and balance.

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The Ferghana Valley can reasonably be said to lie in the heart of Central Asia. As such, the Valley has made an inordinate contribution to the history and culture of the region as a whole, as well as significantly affecting the economic, political and religious spheres. This book looks at the region over time, from its early history to the present. It embraces not just the obvious fields of politics, economics and religion, but also ethnography, sociology and culture, and includes the insights of leading scholars from all three Ferghana countries. The book discusses various questions of identity relating to the region, showing how the identity of the Ferghana Valley relates to the emerging national identities of the three post-colonial states that are still gradually emerging from the demise of the Soviet Union, as well as how an understanding of the Ferghana Valley is key to understanding Central Asia itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780765629999
• ISBN-10: 0765629992
• Artikelnr.: 33615032

Autorenporträt

S. Frederick Starr

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introducing the Ferghana Valley
1. The Ferghana Valley: The Pre-Colonial Legacy
2. The Rise and Fall of the Kokand Khanate
3. Colonial Rule and Indigenous Responses
1860-1917
4. Soviet Rule and the Delineation of Borders in the Ferghana Valley
1917-1930
5. The Ferghana Valley Under Stalin
1929-1953
6. The Ferghana Valley in the Eras of Khrushchev and Brezhnev
7. Cultural Life in the Ferghana Valley Under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
8. The Ferghana Valley During Perestroika
1985-1991
9. A New Phase in the History of the Ferghana Valley
1992-2008
10. Economic Development in the Ferghana Valley Since 1991
11. Land
Water
and Ecology
12. Culture in the Ferghana Valley Since 1991: The Issue of Identity
13. Islam in the Ferghana Valley: Between National Identity and Islamic Alternative
14. The Ferghana Valley and the International Community
Conclusion
About the Editors
Authors
and Contributing Authors
Index