Tribal Nation
Subtitle: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780691127996
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; History - General History; History; History: World; Turkmenistan; Asia - Central Asia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; European History; History / Asia / Central Asia; Middle Eastern Studies; Ethnic identity; Nationalism; Turkmen
First sentence: WHEN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN adventurers wrote of their travels in Central Asia, some of the most vivid passages described the formidable desert nomads known as the Turkmen.