History of Inner Asia

Name: History of Inner Asia
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ISBN: 9780521657044

ISBN-10: 0521657040

ISBN-13: 9780521657044

Edition: 2000

Authors: Svat Soucek

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Svat Soucek's book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of Inner Asia. The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, charts the rise and fall of the different dynasties right up to the Russian conquest. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text. The contemporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day Eurasia, that is Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Sinkiang and Mongolia. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, renewed interest in these countries has prompted considerable political, cultural, economic and religious debate. While a divergent literature has evolved in consequence, no…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Introduction



The beginnings



The Kok Turks, Chinese expansion and the Arab conquest



The Samanids



The Uighur kingdom of Qocho



The Qarakhanids



Seljukids and Ghaznavids



The conquering Mongols



The Chaghatayids



Timur and the Timurids



The last Timurids and the first Uzbeks



The Shaybanids



The rise of Russia, the fall of the Golden Horde, and the resilient Chaghatayids



The Buddhist Mongols



Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand in the seventeenth - nineteenth centuries



The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia



From the Governates-General to Union Republics



Soviet Central Asia



Central Asia becomes independent



Sinkiang as part of China



Independent Central Asian Republics



The Republic of Mongolia