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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Genius of their Age

    Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of their Age, S. Frederick Starr follows up his acclaimed Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age with a portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures--Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn-'Abdallah Ibn-Sina and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia

    by Edward Dennis Sokol ...
    Series Book 71 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    The classic study of resistance to Tsarist Russian colonialism, the genocide that followed, and its connection to the Bolshevik Revolution.In 1916, Tzar Nicholas II began drafting Russian subjects across Central Asia to fight in World War I. By summer, the widespread resistance of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks turned into an outright revolt. The Russian Imperial Army killed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

    by S. Frederick Starr, Karen Dawisha ...
    First Published in 2015. The chapters in this text examine the foreign policies of Russia and other selected states of the former Soviet Union. Each chapter analyses the conduct of foreign policy with the context of each state's unique situation. While the authors look at different countries and subregions and analyse various policy factors and imperatives, they all tend to agree that at present ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 5: State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

    by S. Frederick Starr, Karen Dawisha ...
    This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of Marxism ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The International Politics of Eurasia: v. 4: The Making of Foreign Policy in Russia and the New States of Eurasia

    by S. Frederick Starr, Karen Dawisha ...
    This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of Marxism ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Union and the Baltic States

    The Academies of Sciences of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova, the Transcaucasian and Central Asian Republics and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    by Tigran Martirosyan, Silvia Maretti, S. Frederick Starr ...
    Series series Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
    In the years since the first edition of the "Guide" was published, the research institutions of the academies of sciences of the USSR and the republics have undergone several, sometimes radical, reorganizations and reaffiliations. This guide to academy institutions supplies names, addresses, and historical, research, and organizational profiles for each institution, with summary information on ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The Long Game on the Silk Road

    US and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus

    by S. Frederick Starr, Svante E. Cornell ...
    This book argues that American and European policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural impediments. It traces the framework of Western policies to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which resulted in the stovepiping of relations into political, economic, and democracy categories – and in often uncoordinated or contradictory policies. While the authors ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • An American Family

    Four Centuries. Two Continents

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    An American Family: Four Centuries. Two ContinentsBy: S. Frederick StarrThis book recounts the history of an American family that was formed in the 1930s by the marriage of seeming opposites from the two sides of the ethnic divide that separated descendants of earlier Anglo-Saxon and German settlers from the millions of newcomers from Central Europe and Italy who arrived after 1900. Its immediate ... Read more

    $79.00 USD

  • The Clarinet

    by Julian Rushton, Eric Hoeprich, Albert Rice, Dr Ingrid Pearson, David Schneider, Marie Sumner Lott, S. Frederick Starr ...
    With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on clarinet iconography, the book continues with an overview of the instrument's early history, chapters on the clarinet in the opera orchestra and the traditional symphony orchestra, and examinations of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Inventing New Orleans

    Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

    Edited by S. Frederick Starr ...
    Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown.In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Guns of August 2008

    Russia's War in Georgia

    by Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr ...
    Series series Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
    In the summer of 2008, a conflict that appeared to have begun in the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia rapidly escalated to become the most significant crisis in European security in a decade. The implications of the Russian-Georgian war will be understood differently depending on one's narrative of what transpired and perspective on the broader context. This book is designed to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD