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The course surveys the history of Central and
Inner Asia (the territory of the former Soviet
Central Asian republics, Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan,
Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as
Mongolia and Northwest China) from the
beginnings to the present, also including in the
discussion the East European steppe region
when appropriate. While it looks at this vast
geographical space as part of various imperial
configurations (the Hun, Türk, Kazar, Mongol, Timurid,
and Russian Empires, as well as the Muslim Caliphate
and the Soviet Union), it discusses local
historical processes and dynamics, addressing the
question of in what sense the region can be
considered a separate
historical-geographical entity.
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