Book Reviews
- David W. Anthony: The Horse, The Wheel, and Language*
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Zahiruddin Babur: The Baburnama
Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor
- Thomas Barfield: Afghanistan*
A Cultural and Political History
- Christopher I. Beckwith: Empires of the Silk Road
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- Christopher I. Beckwith: The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia
A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages
- Jane Blunden: Mongolia: The Bradt Travel Guide
- Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
- travels in Persia and Afghanistan in the 1930s
- Johan Elverskog: Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
- contact, understanding, idolatry, jihad, halal
- Sabine Felmy: The Voice of the Nightingale
A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
- Hal Fischer: Mongolia: Museum Highlights*
Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
- Richard Foltz: Religions of the Silk Road
Premodern Patterns of Globalization
- Keith Griffin: Poverty Reduction in Mongolia
- analysis based on a 2001 UNDP study
- Hamid Ismailov: Manaschi*
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
- Blaine Kaltman: Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
- Michael Kohn: Mongolia: The Lonely Planet Travel Guide
- Beatrice Forbes Manz: The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane
- a struggle for power in 14th century Central Asia
- Peter Marsden: The Taliban
War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
- James A. Millward: Eurasian Crossroads
A History of Xinjiang
- Christopher Robbins: In Search of Kazakhstan
The Land that Disappeared
- Morris Rossabi: Modern Mongolia
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
- M. Nazif Shahrani: The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan*
Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War
- Svat Soucek: A History of Inner Asia*
- from the coming of Islam
See also:
China |
Middle East |
Pakistan |
Russia
I have touched on Central Asia twice in my travels, visiting Kashgar (as
a sidetrip from
Northern Pakistan) and
Mongolia.