Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia (Record no. 59850)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 59850
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780821421772
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency AIS
Modifying agency AIS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 958.042
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name David H. Mould
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Postcards from Stanland: Journeys in Central Asia
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Ohio
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Ohio University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet "Stanland" is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in the mid-1990s, academic and journalist David Mould's career took him to the region on Fulbright Fellowships and contracts as a media trainer and consultant for UNESCO and USAID, among others. In Postcards from Stanland, he takes readers along with him on his encounters with the people, landscapes, and customs of the diverse countries-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan-he came to love. He talks with teachers, students, politicians, environmental activists, bloggers, cab drivers, merchants, Peace Corps volunteers, and more. Until now, few books for a nonspecialist readership have been written on the region, and while Mould brings his own considerable expertise to bear on his account-for example, he is one of the few scholars to have conducted research on post-Soviet media in the region-the book is above all a tapestry of place and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the post-Soviet world.
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Genre/form data or focus term Nonfiction
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Genre/form data or focus term Travel
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Genre/form data or focus term Central Asia
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    Dewey Decimal Classification       MDIS Tashkent Learning Resource Center MDIS Tashkent Learning Resource Center   28.05.2022   958.042 TKB033148 19.02.2026 1 19.02.2026 Books