LEADER 04326nam 22006734a 450 001 9910814482403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-79801-X 010 $a0-9753093-5-8 010 $a1-135-79802-8 010 $a1-280-28197-9 010 $a9786610281978 010 $a0-203-64170-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203641705 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351407 035 $a(EBL)200880 035 $a(OCoLC)437062404 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000169756 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000169756 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215132 035 $a(PQKB)10888153 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10163434 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL28197 035 $a(OCoLC)884034169 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200880 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351407 100 $a20040621e20041899 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe heart of Asia $ea history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times /$fFrancis Henry Skrine and Edward Denison Ross 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledgeCurzon$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (305 pages) $cillustrations, maps, portraits 300 $aOriginally published: London : Methuen, 1899. 300 $aSimultaneously reprinted in the USA and Canada. 311 0 $a0-415-51519-X 311 0 $a0-7007-1017-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; The Heart of Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Part I: From the Earliest Times to the Russian Occupation; I. Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander; II. Bactrians and Parthians; III. The Huns and the Yue?-Chi; IV. The Sa?sa?nides, the Ephthalites, and the Turks; V. The Rise of Isla?m and Invasions of the Arabs; VI. The First Eastern Campaigns of Kutayba Ibn Muslim; VII. Kutayba's Last Campaigns; VIIII. Kutayba's Fall and Death; IX. Kutayba's Successors; X. Nasr Ibn Sayya?r and Abu? Muslim; XI. Khora?sa?n Under the First Abba?sids 327 $aXII. The Caliphates of El-Mansu?r, El-Ha?di, and Ha?ru?n Er-Rashi?d XIII. Decline of the Caliphs' Authority in Khora?sa?n the Ta?hirides; XIV. The Saffa?rides and the Rise of The Sa?ma?nides; XV. The Sa?ma?nides; XVI. The Kara-Kha?nides, or U??ghu?rs; XVII. The Ghaznavides and the Rise of the Selju?ks; XVIII. The Selju?ks; XIX. Sultan Sanjar and the Kara-Khita?ys; XX. The Khwa?razm-sha?hs; XXI. Chingiz Kha?n; XXII. Mongol Invasion of Central Asia; XXIII. The Line of Chaghata?y; XXIV. Ti?mu?r, the Great Ami?r; XXV. The Successors of Ti?mu?r; XXVI. The Shayba?nides; XXVII. The House of Astrakhan; XXVIII. The House of Mangit 327 $aXXIX. Ami?r Nasrullah, a Bokha?ran Nero Part II: Russia in Central Asia; I. The Making of Russia; II. Crossing the Threshold of Asia; III. The Struggle with the Kha?nates; IV. Turkomania and the Turkomans; V. The Last Step in Advance; VI. The Central Asian Railways; VII. Transcaspia in 1898; VIII. Askabad and Merv; IX. Bokha?ra?, a Protected Native State; X. Samarkand; XI. Friends or Foes?; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index 330 $aOriginally 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 historical work on the early period, but also because of the unique picture that it gives of contemporary views on the potential for Anglo-Russian conflict, at a time when the Russian Empire was Britain's closest rival for Asian hegemony.Scholars of modern Russia and Central Asia will find much that echoes, and indeed drives, more recent events. 607 $aAsia, Central$xHistory 607 $aAsia, Central$xRelations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xRelations$zAsia, Central 676 $a958.408 700 $aSkrine$b Francis Henry$f1847-1933.$0841417 701 $aRoss$b E. Denison$g(Edward Denison),$cSir,$f1871-1940.$0646434 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814482403321 996 $aThe heart of Asia$94202216 997 $aUNINA