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Nationalism in Central Asia : a biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary / Nick Megoran.
Van Pelt Library DK948.62 .M45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Megoran, Nick, author.
- Series:
- Central Eurasia in context
- Central Eurasia In Context Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Nationalism.
- Boundaries.
- Uzbekistan--Boundaries--Kyrgyzstan.
- Kyrgyzstan--Boundaries--Uzbekistan.
- Nationalism--Uzbekistan.
- Nationalism--Kyrgyzstan.
- Uzbekistan--Politics and government--1991-.
- Uzbekistan.
- Politics and government.
- Kyrgyzstan--Politics and government--1991-.
- Kyrgyzstan.
- Kyrgyzstan--Relations--Uzbekistan.
- Uzbekistan--Relations--Kyrgyzstan.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan boundary
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822964421
- 0822964422
- OCLC:
- 1001413924
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