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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2017]
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| Serie: | Central Eurasia in context.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1vjqrk6 |
Sommario:
- 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.