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Yuri Bregel's Atlas provides us with a bird's eye view of the complicated history of this important part of the Islamic world, which is closely connected with the history of Iran, Afghanistan, China, and Russia; at different times parts of this region were included in these neighboring states, and since 1991 five new independent states emerged in Central Asia: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Covering the 4th century B.C. to the present, the maps show the various political entities, their approximate borders, the major ethnic groups and their migrations, military campaigns and battles, etc. Each map is accompanied by a text which gives a concise survey of the main events of the political and ethnic history of the respective period. With special maps on the distribution of the Turkmen, Uzbek, Qazaq, and Qirghiz tribes in the 19th-20th centuries, as well as the location of major archaeological sites and architectural monuments. The last map (Central Asia in 2000) shows existing gas and oil pipelines.

Atlases, Asian. --- Asia, Central --- Historical geography --- History --- Central Asia --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia --- Asie centrale --- Maps --- Géographie historique --- Cartes --- Histoire --- 912 <5> --- 908 <5> --- #SBIB:03H3 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- 908 <5> Heemkunde. Area studies--Azië --- Heemkunde. Area studies--Azië --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Azië --- Atlassen --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- History of Central Asia --- Atlas --- Geography, Historical --- Geography --- Asia [Central] --- Asia, Central - Historical geography - Maps --- Asia, Central - History - Maps

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"Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the Muse and imitate a technician?" "Having come to the end of his own scholarly career, W. David Shaw felt out of place in the technological realm academia has become - where scholars increasingly model their work on that of scientists rather than that of the classical thinkers of the past, and where original ideas often only alienate scholars, rather than enrich them. Thus, Babel and the Ivory Tower is as much a eulogy as an elegy."--BOOK JACKET.

History of Eastern Europe --- Europe, Central --- Historical geography --- History --- 940 --- 912 <09> <4> --- 91 <09> --- #BIBC:CANADIANA 2002 --- Geschiedenis van Europa, van het Westen, van het Avondland --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Europa --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Europe, Eastern --- 940 Geschiedenis van Europa, van het Westen, van het Avondland --- Learning and scholarship. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- 940 History of Europe. History of the West --- History of Europe. History of the West --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van .. --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van --- Europe, Central - Historical geography - Maps --- Europe, Central - History --- Europe, Central - History. --- Europe centrale --- Géographie historique --- Histoire --- History.