The early life and intellectual activities of Ahmet Agaoglu, an Azerbaijani modernizer, are examined in relation to the question of identity. The influence of early exposure to Russian and French intellectual currents is discussed, as is the impact of economic and social change …
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This dissertation is fundamentally about the formation of new regional spaces in Central Eurasia viewed from a dynamic, comparative and historical approach. Analyzing the global-local economic and political interactions and their consequences on resource rich countries of the Ca…
Most studies dealing with the Qajar period (1796-1925) have focused on events at the center of government in Tehran, the actions of the shah and high officials, and foreign involvement in the country, despite the fact that Iran remained a collection of diverse regions governed b…
This study investigates biophysical and social components of environmental concern and their socio-demographic predictors in five postcommunist Muslim countries from the Balkans and Central Asia. The theories of environmental concern developed in the Western affluent societies h…
After the demise of the Soviet Union, six of the newly independent states were of Islamic background: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, Five of these six are in Central Asia, with Azerbaijan being in the Caucuses region. Specifically …
'On the Threshold of Eurasia' explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet 'East' as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity during the tumultuous first two decade…
"Explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet 'East' as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity from 1905 to 1929"--
