On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of Russian imperialism in Turkestan at the end of empire, from the 1860s until 1916. It reveals for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the environmental imprint of Russian colonisation, and shows how local ecologies fitted int...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

勒内·格鲁塞（René Grousset，1885年－1952年1885年生于加尔省Aubais，1952年逝于巴黎），法国历史学家，以研究中亚和远东著名。其代表作为《草原帝国》（L'Empire des Steppes）。 格鲁塞毕业于蒙彼利埃大学历史系。其后长期就职于法国美术部，一战时曾短暂从军。1925年出任吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆助理监管人及杂志 Asiatique 的秘书。1933年任塞努奇博物馆馆长及其亚洲艺术藏品的负责人。在二战前，发表了他最重要的两篇著作：《十字军东征史》Histoire des Croisades（1934-36年）和《草原帝国》 L'Empire des Steppes （1939年）。二战期间，他被维希法国政府解职，但仍秘密继续研究工作，在战争期间出版了三本有关中国和蒙古的作品。战后，他被重新任命为塞努奇博物馆馆长...(展开全部)

勒内·格鲁塞（René Grousset，1885年－1952年1885年生于加尔省Aubais，1952年逝于巴黎），法国历史学家，以研究中亚和远东著名。其代表作为《草原帝国》（L'Empire des Steppes）。 格鲁塞毕业于蒙彼利埃大学历史系。其后长期就职于法国美术部，一战时曾短暂从军。1925年出任吉美国立亚洲艺术博物馆助理监管人及杂志 Asiatique 的秘书。1933年任塞努奇博物馆馆长及其亚洲艺术藏品的负责人。在二战前，发表了他最重要的两篇著作：《十字军东征史》Histoire des Croisades（1934-36年）和《草原帝国》 L'Empire des Steppes （1939年）。二战期间，他被维希法国政府解职，但仍秘密继续研究工作，在战争期间出版了三本有关中国和蒙古的作品。战后，他被重新任命为塞努奇博物馆馆长...(展开全部)

The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a ...(展开全部)

The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains. Alexander Morrison provides the first comprehensive military and diplomatic history of the conquest to be published for over a ...(展开全部)

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)

Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.