The map of Turkestan basically resembles the borders of the former Russian ... the domestic local oppositions might use anti-Americanism as what Khomeni did to the shah in Iran. In this light, the ...

The Pulse of Asia: a Journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographic Basis of History. By Ellsworth Huntington. Pp. xxi + 416. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd.; Boston and New York ...

This multi-volume History of Civilizations of Central Asia is the first attempt to present a comprehensive picture of the cultures that flourished and vanished at the heart of the Eurasian continent ...