Asia, Central
Here are entered works on the inland part of Asia, extending from the Caspian Sea in the west to, and including, northwestern China and Mongolia in the east, and from southern Siberia in the north to, and including, northern Iran and Afghanistan in the south, as well as works limited to the republics of former Soviet Central Asia treated collectively.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Asia, Central -- Antiquities
- Asia, Central -- Description and travel
- Asia, Central -- Economic conditions
- Asia, Central -- Emigration and immigration
- Asia, Central -- Fiction
- Asia, Central -- Historical geography
- Asia, Central -- Historiography
- Asia, Central -- History
- Asia, Central -- Languages
- Asia, Central -- Periodicals
- Asia, Central -- Politics and government
- Asia, Central -- Religion
- Asia, Central -- Social life and customs
- Central Asian literature
- Architecture -- Asia, Central
- Art, Ancient -- Asia, Central
- Bronze age -- Asia, Central
- Buddhism -- Asia, Central
- Buddhist art -- Asia, Central
- Corruption -- Asia, Central
- Ethnology -- Asia, Central
- Folk art -- Asia, Central
- Geology -- Asia, Central
- Graham, Stephen, 1884-1975 -- Travel -- Asia, Central
- Hunting -- Asia, Central
- Islam -- Asia, Central
- Islam and politics -- Asia, Central
- Islam and state -- Asia, Central
- Islamic architecture -- Asia, Central
- Missions -- Asia, Central
- Nomads -- Asia, Central
- Physical geography -- Asia, Central
- Political corruption -- Asia, Central
- Post-communism -- Asia, Central
- Russians -- Asia, Central
- Symbolism in art -- Asia, Central
- Tales -- Asia, Central
- Central Asia
- Soviet Central Asia
- Tūrān
- Turkestan
- West Turkestan
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Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies (1997), ed. by Glenn E. Curtis (multiple formats at loc.gov)- Essays on Central Asia, by H. B. Paksoy (HTML in Italy)
- Lectures on Central Asia, by H. B. Paksoy
- Explorations in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly
- The Symbol of The Beast: The Animal-Style Art of Eurasia (New York: Ronald Press, 1957), by Dagny Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (New York: Blue ribbon books, c1926), by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Across Coveted Lands: or, A Journey From Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, Overland (London: Macmillan and Co., 1902), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Altai-Himalaya: A Travel Diary, by Nicholas Roerich (at roerich.org)
- Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1892), by Bayard Taylor, ed. by Thomas Stevens
- Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Tibet and Central Asia (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1874), by Bayard Taylor
- Explorations in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly
- The Face of Manchuria, Korea, and Russian Turkestan (New York: Duffield, 1911), by E. G. Kemp (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Heart of Asia, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- In Russian Turkestan: A Garden of Asia and its People (London: G. Allen, 1903), by Annette M. B. Meakin (page images at Wisconsin)
- Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying Between Russia and India (third edition; London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas and Lowrey, 1886), by Charles Marvin
- Russian Central Asia, Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Merv (2 volumes; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by Henry Lansdell
- Through Russian Central Asia (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Stephen Graham (page images at Wisconsin)
- Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara, in the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly (fourth edition; London: Pub. for the author by J. W. Parker, 1846), by Joseph Wolff
- Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Ella Sykes and Percy Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Road to the Grey Pamir (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1931), by Anna Louise Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Merv Oasis: Travels and Adventures East of the Caspian During the Years 1879-80-81, Including Five Months' Residence Among the Tekkés of Merv (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by Edmond O'Donovan
- A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877), by Fred Burnaby (page images at Wisconsin)
- Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860), by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- The Mating of the Blades (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1920), by Achmed Abdullah (page images at HathiTrust)
- Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 volumes; London, Truübner and Co., 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal
- Central Asian Monuments, ed. by H. B. Paksoy
- The Shores of Lake Aral (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1876), by Herbert Wood (page images at Wisconsin)
- Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying Between Russia and India (third edition; London: S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas and Lowrey, 1886), by Charles Marvin
- Central Asian Monuments, ed. by H. B. Paksoy
- AACAR Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research (partial serial archives)
- Asia Major (full serial archives)
- Journal of the Central Asian Society (partial serial archives)
- The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
- Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule, by H. B. Paksoy
- Heart of Asia, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))
- The Symbol of The Beast: The Animal-Style Art of Eurasia (New York: Ronald Press, 1957), by Dagny Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 volumes; London, Truübner and Co., 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal
- Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Kelly M. McMann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Explorations in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly
- Through Russian Central Asia (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Stephen Graham (page images at Wisconsin)
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (New York: Blue ribbon books, c1926), by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
- The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
- The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Adeeb Khalid (HTML at UC Press)
- Formal Structure in Islamic Architecture of Iran and Turkistan, by Klaus Herdeg (PDF files at archnet.org (scroll down in inset to "Associated documents" for chapter links and downloads))
- The Challenge of Central Asia: A Brief Survey of Tibet and its Borderlands, Mongolia, North-West Kansu, Chinese Turkistan, and Russian Central Asia (London, New York, and Toronto: World Dominion Press, 1929), by Mildred Cable, Frank Houghton, R. Kilgour, Alexander McLeish, Reginald W. Sturt, and Olive Wyon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Explorations in Turkestan, by Raphael Pumpelly
- Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Kelly M. McMann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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