Central Asia Past and Present

Guest: Adeeb Khalid is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History and Director of Middle East Studies at Carleton College. He’s published several books on the intersection of Central Asia with the Russian/Soviet empires including  Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Revolution, and Empire in the Early USSR. His new book is Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present published by Princeton University Press. Music: Nouvelle Vague, “A Forest,” Nouvelle Vague, 2004.