In Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley, where Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan meet, state territoriality has taken on new significance in these states’ second decade of independence, reshaping landscapes and transforming livelihoods in a densely populated, irrigation-dependent region. Through an innovative ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state,...(展开全部)

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of gedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. After Genghis' death (1226), gedei was enthroned as the Great Khan or the Qa'an, the supreme ruler of the entire Mongol Empire. The gedeids retained their position as Qa'ans in the reign of gedei's son, Qaidu's uncle, Gnynk Q...(展开全部)

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of gedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. After Genghis' death (1226), gedei was enthroned as the Great Khan or the Qa'an, the supreme ruler of the entire Mongol Empire. The gedeids retained their position as Qa'ans in the reign of gedei's son, Qaidu's uncle, Gnynk Q...(展开全部)

The book relates to the Uzbegs and provides an account of their origin, antecedents, early exploits, conquests and finally the occupation of Central Asia in the sixteenth century. It is the first work on the history and culture of the Uzbegs in English language published in India. It is primarily based on original, contemporary and later sources though most of the available mod...(展开全部)

The book relates to the Uzbegs and provides an account of their origin, antecedents, early exploits, conquests and finally the occupation of Central Asia in the sixteenth century. It is the first work on the history and culture of the Uzbegs in English language published in India. It is primarily based on original, contemporary and later sources though most of the available mod...(展开全部)

What was it you said again? "You have a strange look in your eyes -- like a bystander observing the world. You're not French, are you?"So the letter from one near stranger to another begins, and so begins Tonu Onnepalu's novel of a life lived on the margin where East and West uneasily meet. At home in neither his native land nor his adopted country, the unnamed narrator writes ...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

乔治·寇松（乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松，George Nathaniel Curzon，1859—1925），英国著名保守党政治家和学者，曾任印度总督、外交大臣。1859年出生于英国的贵族家庭，早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学巴利奥尔学院，在牛津大学求学时对英国的中亚和印度事务表现出了浓厚的兴趣。1885年毕业后加入保守党担任索尔兹伯里的秘书，1886年当选保守党的下议院议员，1887年以议员身份游历考察中亚、波斯（今伊朗）、阿富汗、印度、东南亚和俄国和中国，谙熟亚洲历史文化。1891—1892年任印度事务次官，1895—1898年任外交次官，1899年擢任英属印度总督（年仅40岁），任期间实行高压统治，组织觐见大典，推行《大学法》，设置西北边境省，出兵西藏，分割孟加拉，一系列举措致使英印矛盾激化，导致印度人民反英斗争爆发，终于1905年辞职回国。1907年出...(展开全部)

乔治·寇松（乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松，George Nathaniel Curzon，1859—1925），英国著名保守党政治家和学者，曾任印度总督、外交大臣。1859年出生于英国的贵族家庭，早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学巴利奥尔学院，在牛津大学求学时对英国的中亚和印度事务表现出了浓厚的兴趣。1885年毕业后加入保守党担任索尔兹伯里的秘书，1886年当选保守党的下议院议员，1887年以议员身份游历考察中亚、波斯（今伊朗）、阿富汗、印度、东南亚和俄国和中国，谙熟亚洲历史文化。1891—1892年任印度事务次官，1895—1898年任外交次官，1899年擢任英属印度总督（年仅40岁），任期间实行高压统治，组织觐见大典，推行《大学法》，设置西北边境省，出兵西藏，分割孟加拉，一系列举措致使英印矛盾激化，导致印度人民反英斗争爆发，终于1905年辞职回国。1907年出...(展开全部)