LEADER 03598nam 2200553 450 001 9910465958303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8214-4537-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000583769 035 $a(EBL)4386511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4386511 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4386511 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11151851 035 $a(OCoLC)936379647 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000583769 100 $a20150917h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcards from Stanland $ejourneys in Central Asia /$fDavid H. Mould 210 1$aAthens :$cOhio University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2177-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Illustrations; Preface; 1: Travels in "Kyrzakhstan"; 2: Sacred Mountain and Silly Borders; 3: How Do You Say "Rump Roast"?; 4: Kasha, Honor, Dignity, and Revolution; 5: On and Off the Silk Road; 6: To Be a Kazakh Is to Be "Brave and Free"; 7: Father of Apples; 8: The President's Dream City; 9: Coal and Steel; 10: No Polygon, No Problem; 11: Wheat and Oil; 12: The Seven Lessons of Stanland; Notes; Glossary and Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Index 330 2 $a"Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet 'Stanland' is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in the mid-1990s, academic and journalist David Mould's career took him to the region on Fulbright Fellowships and contracts as a media trainer and consultant for UNESCO and USAID, among others. In Postcards from Stanland, he takes readers along with him on his encounters with the people, landscapes, and customs of the diverse countries--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan--he came to love. He talks with teachers, students, politicians, environmental activists, bloggers, cab drivers, merchants, Peace Corps volunteers, and more. Until now, few books for a nonspecialist readership have been written on the region, and while Mould brings his own considerable expertise to bear on his account--for example, he is one of the few scholars to have conducted research on post-Soviet media in the region--the book is above all a tapestry of place and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the post-Soviet world"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPost-communism$xSocial aspects$zAsia, Central 607 $aAsia, Central$xDescription and travel 607 $aKazakhstan$xDescription and travel 607 $aKyrgyzstan$xDescription and travel 607 $aTajikistan$xDescription and travel 607 $aUzbekistan$xDescription and travel 607 $aAsia, Central$xSocial life and customs 607 $aAsia, Central$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPost-communism$xSocial aspects 676 $a958/.042 700 $aMould$b David H$g(David Harley),$f1949-$0949493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465958303321 996 $aPostcards from Stanland$92146131 997 $aUNINA