The Central Asian
region is actively developing. Progress has been particularly noticeable in
recent years, according to British scholar and bestselling author Peter
Frankopan. The Oxford professor of Global History visited Almaty, where he
presented his book titled «The Earth Transformed: An Untold History» in Kazakh
and Russian. The scientist has been studying the region for over 30 years and
highlights its significance both in the past and in the modern world. According
to the writer, there is growing interest in Central Asia across all fields,
including from the scientific community.
«Central Asia was a part of the world that did
not get written about very much. I did not read much about it at school. But
the more I started to learn about it even when I was a teenage boy the more it
seemed not only was Silk Roads and the cities and the cultures interesting but
also extremely important. There are 13,000 academic papers published about
Central Asia in the last 30 years,» said Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global
History at Oxford University.
