Summary
This eBook introduces readers to the geography of Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, covering the culture region as a whole rather than individual countries. The volume emphasizes the region's people and their various ways of life, considering how they have adapted to, used, and changed the natural environments in which they live.
Like other titles in the 10-volume Modern World Cultures set, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, Second Edition explores the geographical features, climate, and ecosystems; population, settlement, and culture; and the history and economy of the region at hand. Also covered are the region’s diversity, challenges, and prospects.
Illustrated with full-color maps and photographs, and accompanied by a chronology, glossary, and further readings, these accessible titles offer an ideal starting point for research on the culture regions of the world.
About the Author(s)
THOMAS MCCRAY, Ph.D., is an instructor at Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri, and at the University of Missouri. His main interests are cultural and economic and physical geography. He lectures on Southwest Asia and nations and regions of the former Soviet Union. His research has involved circumnavigations of South America, sailing on Siberia's Lake Baikal, farming and railroading in California's San Joaquin Valley, and studying post-Soviet reforms among the Central Asian states.
ZORAN "ZOK" PAVLOVIĆ is a Croatian-American professional cultural geographer who lives and works in Switzerland. During his travels, he has visited nearly all European countries. Previously he has worked with the U.S. Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning and as the Department of the Army civilian in Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition to numerous books for Infobase, he has also authored the book Photographic Memory of Kabul City.
Series editor CHARLES F. ("FRITZ") GRITZNER is distinguished professor emeritus of geography at South Dakota University in Brookings. During a half-century of college teaching, he taught more than 70 different courses spanning the fields of physical, cultural, regional, and historical geography. Gritzner has served as both president and executive director of the National Council for Geographic Education and has received the council's highest honor, the George J. Miller Award for Distinguished Service. He also received the Distinguished Teaching and Gilbert M. Grosvenor Honors for Geographic Education awards from the American Association of Geographers.