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Edited by Michael Fergus with Janar Jandosova
Stacey International presents the next in its series of comprehensive illustrated country studies and celebrates Kazakhstan's «coming of age», beginning with its place in the world.
Kazakhstan is a nation breaking in upon the consciousness of the world, as it masters the exploitation of its enormous hydrocarbon and mineral resources, and takes on its pivotal role on the map of Euro-Asia. For years its vast territory spanning from Europe to China has been a sleeping giant, a site of still largely undisturbed natural wealth and of people of exceptional hardihood and resource. Pitched into independence in 1991 after a century and a half of
colonization by itssucessively Tsarist and Soviet Russian neighbour, Kazakhstan with its multi-ethnic population has lost no time in finding its feet in a rapacious and riven international community, and in establishing its own political moralities and internal stability.
Kazakhstan-Coming of Age is an indispensable overview of a country growing in global significance month by month.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Kazakhstan in the World
Chapter2: The land and Geography
Chapter 3: Habitat and Ways of Living
Chapter 4: Heritage and History to the Present day
Chapter5: The Social Scene
Chapter 6: The Creative Force
Chapter 7: The Economy
100,000 words with contributions from outstanding specialists of the region; 530 pictures; 12 maps; governmental chart

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