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.

$50.00 (hardcover)