Central Asia


The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
The Lost Heart of Asia
The Kite Runner
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
Jamilia
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Shadow of the Silk Road
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonJamilia by Chingiz AitmatovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Books Set in the -stan Countries
333 books — 172 voters
The Landmark Arrian by ArrianAfghanistan by Jonathan L. LeeAfghanistan by Thomas BarfieldReturn of a King by William DalrympleAccount of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Per... by Mountstuart Elphinstone
Afghanistan: Heart of Asia
100 books — 1 voter

The Great Game by Peter HopkirkGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordThe Empire of the Steppes by René GroussetThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonThe Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Central Asia
281 books — 87 voters
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia by Jeff EdenAnglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895 by Gerald MorganThe Great Game by Peter HopkirkThe World War Deception by Hamad SubaniDoes it Yurt? Travels in Central Asia Or How I Came to Love t... by Stephen M.  Bland
The Great Game and Central Asia
10 books — 9 voters

Angelika Regossi
I was taught how to marry in Tajikistan before I was taught how to choose.
Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

Even under Stalin, Soviet state power, acting through law and the courts, confronted serious limits in its efforts to govern, much less transform, its colonial Central Asian periphery.
Douglas Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

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