Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- INNER ASIA: PRINCIPAL POLITICAL UNITS -- TRANSLITERATION AND GEOPOLITICAL TERMINOLOGY -- Introduction -- NATURAL SETTING -- HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY -- ETHNOLINGUISTIC AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY OF MODERN INNER ASIA -- Ethnolinguistic Identity -- (a) Turkic Languages -- (b) Mongolian -- (c) Tajik -- Religious and Cultural Identity -- (a) Islam -- (b) Buddhism -- (c) Shamanism -- Nomads and Sedentaries -- CHAPTER ONE The beginnings -- CHAPTER TWO The Kök Turks, the Chinese expansion, and the Arab conquest -- THE ARAB CONQUSET -- THE UIGHUR QUGHANATA -- THE BATTLE OF 751 -- CHAPTER THREE The Samanids -- CHAPTER FOUR The Uighur kingdom of Qocho -- CHAPTER FIVE The Qarakhanids -- CHAPTER SIX Seljukids and Ghaznavids -- CHAPTER SEVEN The conquering Mongols -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Chaghatayids -- CHAPTER NINE Timur and the Timurids -- THE TIMURIDS -- CHAPTER TEN The last Timurids and the first Uzbeks -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Shaybanids -- CHAPTER TWELVE The rise of Russia, the fall of the Golden Horde, and the resilient Chaghatayids -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Buddhist Mongols -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- BUKHARA -- KHIVA -- KHOQAND -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN From Governorates-General to Union Republics -- THE KHOQAND EXPERIMENT -- ALASH ORDA AND KYRGYZ (I.E. KAZAKH) AUTONOMOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (KAZSSR) -- TURKESTAN AUTONOMOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (TASSR) -- THE KHOREZMIN AND BUKHARAN PEOPLE'S SOVIET REPUBLICS -- NATIONAL DELIMITATION -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Soviet Central Asia -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Central Asia becomes independent -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Sinkiang as part of China -- CHAPTER TWENTY Independent Central Asian Republics.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Republic of Mongolia -- BRIEF HISTORY SINCE 1911 -- Summary and conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- DYNASTIC TABLES -- Appendix 2 -- COUNTRY DATA -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan -- Uzbekistan -- Karakalpakistan -- Sinkiang -- Mongolia -- Select bibliography -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, MULTIVOLUME SURVEYS, SPECIAL REFERENCE MANUALS AND PERIODICALS -- PRINCIPAL SURVEYS OR INTRODUCTIONS -- OTHER LITERATURE -- SELECTED SAMPLES OF PRIMARY SOURCES AND ANCILLARY MATERIALS -- Index.