The Turks in World HistoryOxford University Press, 2004 M11 11 - 320 pages Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Cultural, economic, social, and political history unite in these pages to illuminate the projection of Turkic identity across space and time and the profound transformations marked successively by the Turks' entry into Islam and into modernity. |
Contents
Islam and Empire from the Seljuks through the Mongols | |
Islamic Empires from Temür to the Gunpowder Era | |
Reform and Imperialism | |
Republican and Communist | |
The Turkic Caravan in Retrospect | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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