Bukhara | Khiva |
For the history of the former Russian province of Turkestan since 1924, see under History of
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan Turkestan ASSR 1918-1924 General Governorate of Turkestan, 1867-1918 Historical Atlas : Uzbek Khanates / Uzbekistan Students' Papers : Lee, Hyejin, Russian/Soviet Central Asia in Political Transition, 1800-1945 : a Collage of Biographies of Persons (2012) Students' Papers : Kim, Jae Yun, Turkestan in Historic Encyclopedias (2009) |
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WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | from Current Perspective |
Article Russian Turkestan, from Wikipedia |
from Historical Perspective |
H. Spalding, Khiva and Turkestan (1874), posted on
Internet Archive D.K. Ivanov, Die Russen in Turkestan (1876) in German, posted on Internet Archive H. Lansdell, Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv (1885) vol.1, vol.2, posted on Internet Archive F. Machatschek, Landeskunde von Russisch Turkestan (1921) in German, posted on Internet Archive |
Links |
Organizations |
Historical Dictionary |
Timelines |
Timeline : Major Events relevant to Central Asian History (since 1600), from oxuscom |
Accounts of History | Central Asia | Current Perspective |
Central Asia | Historical Perspective |
J. de Guignes, Histoire generale des Huns, des Turcs, des Mongols et des autres Tartares
vol.1 pt.1, 1756,
vol.1 pt.2, 1756,
vol.2, 1756,
vol.3, 1757,
vol.4, 1758,
vol.5, 1758, in French, GB |
Russian Turkestan | Current Perspective |
Article Russian Turkestan, from Wikipedia |
Russian Turkestan | Historical Perspective |
F.H. Skrine, E.D. Ross, The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian .. (1899), posted on
Internet Archive |
Central Asia | Specific Periods |
Russian Turkestan | Specific Periods |
R.A. Pierce, Russian Central Asia 1867-1917 (1960), posted on
Internet Archive G.N. Curzon, Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question (1889), posted on Internet Archive A. Vambery, Central Asia and the Anglo-Russian Frontier Question: A Series of Political Papers (1874), posted on Internet Archive W.E. Beater, England and Russia in Asia (1885), posted on Internet Archive Ch. Marvin, The Russian advance towards India. Conversations with Skobeleff, Ignatieff, and other distinguished Russian generals and statesmen, on the Central Asian question (1882), posted on Internet Archive J. Dacosta, A scientific frontier; or, The danger of a Russian invasion of India (1891), posted on Internet Archive E.H. Sutherland, Russian projects against India : from the czar Peter to general Skobeleff (1885), posted on Internet Archive |
Military |
Wars of Bukhara 1800-1999, from ACED |
Economy & Finances |
Social History |
Ethnography |
Articles Uzbeks,
Tajiks, from Wikipedia The Central Asian Jews, The Peoples of the Pamirs, from The Red Book of Peoples of the Russian Empire History of the Uighurs in Brief, from The Uighurs Turkistan, pp.5023-5035 in vol.7A of J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations, c.1920, illustrated, IA |
Religion |
Regional History |
Local History |
Structures, Institutions |
Culture & Science |
Khalid, Adeeb. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. |
Biographies |
Others |
W.R. Rickmers, The Duab of Turkestan (1913), posted on Internet Archive W.R. Rickmers, Impressions of the Duab (Russian Turkestan) (1907), posted on Internet Archive A. Vambery, Western culture in Eastern lands, a comparison of the methods adopted by England and Russia in the middle East (1906), posted on Internet Archive |
WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
World Statesmen : Turkestan ASSR by Ben Cahoon;
Regnal Chronologies : Central Asia, scroll down for Bokhara, Khiva,
Khokand, Khwarazm, Qarakalpak, Uzbekistan;
Turkestan Statesmen, from Atlas Words
(comment in Italian); |
Population Figures |
Historical Population Statistics : Uzbekistan, from Population Statistics |
Documents | Historical Newspapers |
Bukhara ye-sharif (Persian lnguage newspaper 1912-), held by IISG |
Image Databanks |
Systematic Collections General |
Search Delcampe Picture Postcards Exhibition of early color photographs from Russian Empire by S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky : Samarkand |
Systematic Collections Specialist |
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Reading Room Turkestan Album M. Dikovitskaya, Central Asia in Early Photographs: Russian Colonial Attitudes and Visual Culture |
Accidental Collections |
Oriental Collections Items on Turkestan |
Uzbekistan Images, from ArchNet, click Samarkand,
Tashkent etc. |
Universal Collections Items on Turkestan |
Archival Deposits |
British Intelligence Reports on Russia in Central Asia, published by IDC Publishers Search Your Archives for Samarkand, Tashkent (UK National Archives) |
Constitutions, Laws |
Treaty Collections |
Document Collections |
Historical Maps |
Map : Turkestan 1888 |
Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
General |
Article Turkistan, from Meyers Konversationslexikon
1885-1892, in German, posted by Retro Bibliothek Article Chimkent, Ferghana, Khokand, Samarkand, Central Asia, Semiryechensk, Tashkent, Turkestan, from EB 1911 |
Religious |
Article Turkestan, from Catholic Encyclopedia,
scroll down for Russian Turkestan |
Economic |
E.G. Balfour, The cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific; products of the mineral,
vegetable, and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures (1885),
vol.1,
vol.2,
vol.3, posted on Internet Archive; search for Turkestan |
Geographical |
Asiatic Russia : Russian Central Asia pp.206-207 in J. MacFarlane,
Economic geography, c. 1910, GB |
Encyclopedia Artiucles | Ethnological |
The Kara-Kirghiz p.178, the Kirghiz-Kazakhs pp.178-180, the Turkomans pp.180-181 in A.H. Keane,
The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters
, 1908, GB |
on History |
Parliamentary Debates | foreign |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
E.F. Chapman, G. de Meyendorf, A Journey from Orenburg to Bokhara in the Year 1820 (1870), posted on
IA E. Schuyler, Turkistan : Notes Of A Journey In Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, And Kuldja (1876), posted on IA E.F. Eversmann, H. Lichtenstein, Reise von Orenburg nach Buchara (1823) in German, posted on IA M. Albrecht, Russisch Centralasien: Reisebilder aus Transkaspien, Buchara und Turkestan (1896), posted on IA H. Moser, Durch Central-Asien; die Kirgisensteppe, Russisch-Turkestan, Bochara, Chiwa, das Turkmenenland und Persien (1888) in German, posted on Internet Archive D. Ker, O'er Tartar deserts, or, English and Russian in central Asia (1898), posted on Internet Archive G. Dobson, Russia's Railway Advance Into Central Asia: Notes of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Samarkand (1890), posted on Internet Archive |
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Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
(Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies) (site in German, most titles listed in English;
numerous entries; publications mostly since 1970) RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library ISBN Database |
on Russian Turkestan |
Online Libraries | general |
Internet Archives Gutenberg Library Online e-corpus International Boundary Studies |
on Central Asia |
Online Journals | full text online |
Central and Inner Asia Studies, publications Silk Road Journal Transoxania, since 2000 |
General Accounts |
Specific Topics |
Historical Atlasses |
Yuri Bregel, An Historical Atlas of Central Asia,
(HACA) Leiden : Brill 2003 (defines Central Asia as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Xinjiang) |