Arthur Bonner, a New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, spent most of 1985 and 1986 in Afghanistan and Pakistan researching the aft
Originally published in 1966, this edition of Elizabeth E. Bacon's classic work of history and ethnography includes an extensive introduction by Michael M. J. Fischer that surveys developments in our
Though largely desert, Turkmenistan is extremely rich in oil and gas and figures prominently in the growing importance of resource politics in the Caspian region. This excellent new book provides a co
For large part of the post-independence period, Uzbekistana (TM)s elites have legitimised their rule in the name of a struggle against religiously motivated and foreign-funded extremism. Without Presi
