Mongolia

Allt detta tillhör mig är historien om tre generationer mongoliska kvinnor: en farmor, en mor och tre systrar. I kapitel döpta efter dessa karaktärer får vi ta del av kvinnoödena från sina olika perspektiv som alla vävs in i varandra. Petra Hulová l…

The importance of the Mongols’ impact on the Rus lands has been recognised by many scholars, but its precise nature and extent is very contentious. While diverse opinions exist on the origins and development of Muscovy, the author argues that…

Let the adventure begin! Ride a camel across the sun-scorched Gobi, feast by moonlight at the bottomless lake of Üüreg Nuur, and experience traditional archery and wrestling at the Naadam Festival. Escape to the ends of the earth in the footsteps of…

Based on the findings of the Asian Development Bank's first economic mission to Mongolia, this study analyzes the Mongolian economy over the past decades, and focuses on economic reforms that have been undertaken since the 1980s to change from a cen…

Svat Soucek’s book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic t…

Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies -…

Allt detta tillhör mig är den fängslande och prisbelönta berättelsen om fyra generationer kvinnor i Mongoliet vars öden vävs in i varandra. En berättelse som tar sin början i det vidsträckta mongoliska landskapet med hästar, jakmjölk, den eviga grä…

The Mongol warriors were one of the great success stories of world military history. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan and his successors the Mongols conquered much of the known world, fighting in territory ranging from the frozen steppes, the wi…

Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about the region. This book is an attempt to redress the balance. It is a study of the effect of decades of social engineering on a Minority Nationality in Chi…

A biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord.

Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It presents a wealth of new information, and offers a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. This unique and detailed analysis of a fas…

Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, may be a hotbed of progressive attitudes, but in the rest of the 'Land of the Blue Sky', life remains pretty much the same - horses outnumber people, nomads still move camp each season and on long-distance bus rides…

The former Soviet Union covers a vast area of land, and over the last 200 years, many dozens of extraordinary dinosaurs and other fossil amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals have been found in Mesozoic rocks in its territories. The Permo-Triassic…

Based on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and econo…