Author: Michael Fergus (Editor),
Janar Jandosova (Contributor)
This is an overview of
a country with a global significance
that is growing month by
month. Kazakhstan is a nation
currently breaking into the
world’s consciousness
as it masters the exploitation
of its natural resources
enormous hydro-carbon and
mineral resources and takes
on a more pivotal role in
Euro-Asia. For years, Kazakhstan’s
vast territory – stretching
from Europe to China – has
been a sleeping giant, a
site of largely undisturbed
natural wealth and a people
of exceptional hardiness
and resourcefulness. Pitched
into independence in 1991,
after a century and a half
of colonization by its successively
Tsarist and Soviet-Russian
neighbor, Kazakhstan, with
its multi- ethnic population,
lost no time in finding its
feet in a rapacious and driven
international community,
and in establishing its own
political moralities and
internal stability.
This book presents authoritative
coverage of the country's
place in the world, bridging
West and East: its spectacular
landscape and its ecological
challenges; its people and
their patterns of life; its
turbulent history and astonishing
heritage of material culture;
its governmental structures;
contemporary society; and
Kazakhstan's highly significant
economy and prospects.
Here is Kazakhstan in a
work combining sound scholarship
and research with over 400
photographs and many maps.
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