Central Asian History

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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
by: Jeff Eden
4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia 4.33 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia 4.16 avg rating — 1,528 ratings
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Warrior Saints of the Silk Road
Warrior Saints of the Silk Road
by: Jeff Eden
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Place of the Skull
The Place of the Skull 4.30 avg rating — 2,181 ratings
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane 4.26 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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My Life as an Explorer: The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir
My Life as an Explorer: The Great Adventurers Classic Memoir 4.03 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia 3.82 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Mission To Tashkent
Mission To Tashkent 3.81 avg rating — 201 ratings
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On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire 4.26 avg rating — 783 ratings
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The Bookseller of Kabul
The Bookseller of Kabul 3.77 avg rating — 56,013 ratings
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,402,386 ratings
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia 3.98 avg rating — 4,736 ratings
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Cabool
Cabool 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Does it Yurt? Travels in Central Asia Or How I Came to Love the Stans
Does it Yurt? Travels in Central Asia Or How I Came to Love the Stans 3.66 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet
Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet 4.18 avg rating — 1,316 ratings
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Tibetan Foothold
Tibetan Foothold 4.05 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu 3.85 avg rating — 3,177 ratings
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Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia 4.11 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Ode to Odin
Ode to Odin 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran
Inside Central Asia: A political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran 3.62 avg rating — 346 ratings
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Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings
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China: Her Life and Her People
China: Her Life and Her People 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 4.19 avg rating — 8,405 ratings
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The Waiting Land
The Waiting Land 4.11 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Tales Told In Tents: Stories from Central Asia
Tales Told In Tents: Stories from Central Asia 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
The East is Still Red - Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century 4.52 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival
Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival 3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings
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George Hunter: Apostle of Turkestan
George Hunter: Apostle of Turkestan 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan 4.35 avg rating — 4,901 ratings
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Babur Nama: Journal of the Emperor Babur
Babur Nama: Journal of the Emperor Babur 3.96 avg rating — 772 ratings
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The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda
The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Gobi Desert - The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s
The Gobi Desert - The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s 4.08 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia 3.95 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
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Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 4.17 avg rating — 46,209 ratings
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Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA 4.11 avg rating — 3,889 ratings
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In Secret Mongolia (Mystic Traveller Series)
In Secret Mongolia (Mystic Traveller Series) 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews & the Central Asiatic Expeditions 3.95 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR
Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Xinjiang Population Dynamics and Data
Xinjiang Population Dynamics and Data it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared 4.02 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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MEN AND GODS IN MONGOLIA (OP) (Mystic Traveller Series)
MEN AND GODS IN MONGOLIA (OP) (Mystic Traveller Series) 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia
Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia 3.87 avg rating — 705 ratings
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History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set
History of Central Asia, The: 4-volume set liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Xinjiang: Understanding Complexity, Building Peace
Xinjiang: Understanding Complexity, Building Peace really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep 4.19 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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Mongolian Adventure
Mongolian Adventure 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture) 4.09 avg rating — 142 ratings
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On Ancient Central Asian Tracks
On Ancient Central Asian Tracks 3.90 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas 2.93 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea 3.95 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 4.31 avg rating — 18,331 ratings
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The Trail of War: On the Track of Big Horse in Central Asia
The Trail of War: On the Track of Big Horse in Central Asia 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World 3.89 avg rating — 932 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 4.06 avg rating — 81,017 ratings
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The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia
The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game 3.96 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Silk Road
The Silk Road 3.77 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia 4.20 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Across the Gobi Desert
Across the Gobi Desert 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Larson - Duke of Mongolia
Larson - Duke of Mongolia 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Guns, Gold, and Caravans: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Fred Meyer Schroder
Guns, Gold, and Caravans: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Fred Meyer Schroder 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Kandahar Cockney : A Tale of Two Worlds
Kandahar Cockney : A Tale of Two Worlds 3.45 avg rating — 42 ratings
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China Caravans: An American Adventurer in Old China
China Caravans: An American Adventurer in Old China 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Escape de Kabul
Escape de Kabul 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Pioneer Tobacco Merchant In The Orient
A Pioneer Tobacco Merchant In The Orient liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Come Back to Afghanistan
Come Back to Afghanistan 3.86 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Turkestan Reunion
Turkestan Reunion 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes 4.05 avg rating — 463 ratings
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West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story 3.90 avg rating — 1,727 ratings
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan 3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban 3.91 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban 3.92 avg rating — 746 ratings
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan 3.87 avg rating — 1,335 ratings
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The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace
The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran 3.77 avg rating — 2,189 ratings