Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding

Honorable Mention, 2023 CESS Outreach Award

Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.

© 2022 University of Pittsburgh Press (Ebook): 9780822988274

Release date

Ebook: 31 May 2022