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What makes private property valuable, desirable, or workable? This book focuses on the social and economic dimensions of private property in Azerbaijan after the agrarian reforms of 1996. It looks at the kinds of land and cultivation strategies emerging in the decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, and it examines why rural households are often unwilling to cultivate the privatized land shares they have received for free, despite the threat and existence of rural poverty. Consideration is given to households that engage in cultivation and households that do not - including households of...

Das Standardwerk zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kurden

Das große Siedlungsgebiet der Kurden wurde nach dem Untergang des Osmanischen Reichs von Staatsgrenzen durchtrennt. Die Angst vor kurdischen Autonomiebestrebungen führt seitdem zur Unterdrückung ihrer Kultur und wird durch die Verwirklichung einer Autonomie im Irak weiter angeheizt.

Martin Strohmeier und Lale Yalçin-Heckmann schildern die mehr als tausendjährige Geschichte der Kurden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der jüngsten Geschichte in der Türkei, im Irak und Iran sowie in Syrien. Besonderes...

What does it mean to know a world area, or to be part of one, for that matter? The most prominent of "Caucasus paradigms" paint a picture of a region famous not only for its cultural, linguistic, religious, political, and economic pluralisms, but for its violence, savagery, conflict, and corruption; its nobility, hospitality, natural beauty, and severity. Such paradigms present a paradox: Despite such histories of diaspora, migration, conquest, and cohabitation, the Caucasus is most often conjured as a place of closure to those "from outside." This volume seeks to turn a longstanding handicap...