The Land and Wildlife of Eurasia
Author : François Bourlière
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780809439119
Author : François Bourlière
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780809439119
Author : Francois Bourliere
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : François BOURLIÈRE
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1964
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Eurasia
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Author : Anita Sengupta
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739136089
Heartlands of Eurasia explores how received metageographical knowledge informs the understanding of global processes and is subsequently transformed into geopolitical reasoning with foreign policy implications. It provides a detailed examination of writings, from both within the region and outside, that look into the significance of Halford Mackinder's heritage in the context of a vastly changed world situation. In particular, it attempts to examine how policy makers and strategic thinkers have used these geopolitical concepts as justification for their policy in the region. Finally, it attempts an analysis of the extent to which this policy thinking was translated into practice. While the study looks into how the vision of the 'pivotal' significance of a vast expanse of land finds its echoes in contemporary narratives, it also underlines the very creative ways in which Mackinder's ideas have been reinterpreted in keeping with the changing global dynamics. Making use of the way in which the region has been traditionally defined and the way in which the people defined themselves, the study brings into focus a debate on the usefulness of region or 'area'-based studies that are located in geographical imaginations. Anita Sengupta uses this connection to examine the following issues: geopolitical imaginations and their relevance in identifying 'areas' in the present context; the intersection between how areas are defined from an outsider perspective and how people define themselves; the extent to which these definitions have influenced policy; and the possibility or feasibility of the development of alternative geostrategic discourses. Mackinder himself did not specify the geographical area identified first as the 'pivot' and later the 'heartland,' but his ideas were focused on the 'closed heartland of Euro-Asia,' an area that was unassailable by sea power. This study therefore centers its debates around the Eurasian space in general, though the focus is on the Central Asian region and Uzbekistan in particular. The book is ideal for specialists working on the Eurasian region, graduate students interested in geopolitics as well as Eurasian and Central Asian studies, and undergraduates studying political science and international relations.
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Biogeography
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Author : Paul David Buell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004432108
Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.
Author : Marinus J.A. Werger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400738862
Steppes form one of the largest biomes. Drastic changes in steppe ecology, land use and livelihoods came with the emergence, and again with the collapse, of communist states. Excessive ploughing and vast influx of people into the steppe zone led to a strong decline in nomadic pastoralism in the Soviet Union and China and in severely degraded steppe ecosystems. In Mongolia nomadic pastoralism persisted, but steppes degraded because of strongly increased livestock loads. After the Soviet collapse steppes regenerated on huge tracts of fallow land. Presently, new, restorative steppe land management schemes are applied. On top of all these changes come strong effects of climate change in the northern part of the steppe zone. This book gives an up-to-date overview of changes in ecology, climate and use of the entire Eurasian steppe area and their effects on livelihoods of steppe people. It integrates knowledge that so far was available only in a spectrum of locally used languages.
Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199689172
The story of the peoples of Eurasia, from the birth of farming to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. An immense historical panorama set on a huge continental stage, this is also the story of how humans first started building the global system we know today.
Author : Robert B. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1442277890
This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of humans and their environment. Tracing changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a fifth of humankind, Robert B. Marks illuminates the paradoxes inherent in China’s environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China’s traditional “heroic” storyline, highlighting the marginalization of nature and contacts with other peoples that followed the spread of Chinese civilization while examining the development of a distinctly Chinese way of relating to and altering the environment. Unmatched in his ability to synthesize a complex subject clearly and cogently, Marks has written an accessible yet nuanced history for any student interested in China, past or present, or indeed in the world’s environmental future.