Nationalism in Central Asia : a biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary /

"Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the boundary between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, using a combination of political, historical, ethnographic, and geographic frames to shed new light on this process."--Pr...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Megoran, Nick (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
Saila:Central Eurasia in context.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1vjqrk6
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction: making borders, making worlds
  • Uzbekistan: building the nation, defending the border
  • Kyrgyzstan: contested visions of the nation
  • Caught in the middle: life in the "neutral zone"
  • Osh's borders: a matter of life and death
  • Conclusion: the destruction of the Ferghana Valley
  • Appendix I: Transliteration tables
  • Appendix II: Divergent spellings.