books about: khanates (celebrities diplomatic commercial)

books about: khanates

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The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times
Francis Henry Bennett Skrine, Edward Denison Ross

Adamant Media Corporation, 2001

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1899 edition by Methuen & Co., London.

Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700
Brian Davies

Routledge, 2007

This crucial period in Russia's history has been neglected by historians but, Brian L. Davies's study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power. For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire for mastery of Ukraine and the fertile steppes above the Black Sea, a region of great strategic and economic importance - arguably the pivot of ...

The Empire And the Khanate: A Political History of Qing Relations With Khoqand C1760-1860 (Brill's Inner ...
L. J. Newby

Brill Academic Pub, 2005

Drawing primarily on Qing archival sources, this study charts the changes in Qing policy that characterized the empire?s relations with the Central Asian khanate of Khoqand, from the Qianlong era to the mid-19th century. It explores how the development of Khoqand as a regional power and its involvement with the khoja-cause impacted on Qing policy towards Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) and the consolidation of the north-western frontier. Focussing ...

The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the Earliest Times
Edward Den Ross

RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

'A time when Russia's movements in the East are being watched by all with such keen interest seems a fitting one for the appearance of a work dealing with her Central Asian possessions' (from the original Introduction). Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary machinations of the Russian empire. The book is valuable not only because of the quality of the ...

BUKHARA, KHANATE AND EMIRATE OF: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Islam and the ...
Florian Schwarz

Macmillan Reference USA, 2004

?Islam and the Muslim World? will help people understand the fastest growing religion in the United States and the dominant religion in a wide area of the rest of the world. This informative and interesting new encyclopedia explores an increasingly important force in the modern world, looking at Islam's role in the modern world, in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries, and contains thematic articles, ...

The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic, and Commercial History, 1550-1702
Audrey Burton

Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Thorough study of the people of Bukhara and their relations with settled peoples and nomads, from Muscovy to China, and Iran to India. The book deals fully with dynastic, internal and external problems, trade routes, coinage policies and the khans' attempts to encourage trade.

Back to the Future: The Khanate of Kalat and the Genesis of Baluch Nationalism 1915-1955
Martin Axmann

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

This study portrays the decline and disintegration of the Baluch khanate of Kalat during the last decades of British rule and investigates the genesis of Baluch nationalism during the first half of the twentieth century. In its essence, the study attempts to de-mystify both Baluch and Pakistani national self-perception and throw light on Pakistan's unsolved national question.

The Khanate of Erevan Under Qajar Rule: 1795-1828 (Persian Studies Series, No. 13)

3 reviews
George A. Bournoutian

Mazda Pub, 1992

Another excellent analysis by Bournoutian
Very objective and precise. For those who like to study the region, the "History of Qarabakh", or the translation of Mirza Jamal's Tarike Qarabakhi is another great product of Bournotian's work.

KHIVA, KHANATE OF: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
Touraj Atabaki

Macmillan Reference USA, 2004

?Islam and the Muslim World? will help people understand the fastest growing religion in the United States and the dominant religion in a wide area of the rest of the world. This informative and interesting new encyclopedia explores an increasingly important force in the modern world, looking at Islam's role in the modern world, in the context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries, and contains thematic articles, ...