Purpose

To assist with your "In-class Group Presentation and Discussion - a ten-minute summary and historical context...and find one short reading, primary source, or video for the class to read in addition to the already assigned readings" and Final Assignment...a recorded presentation, a traditional research paper, a podcast, or an online museum exhibition...[with a] bibliography of 5-10 sources.

 

If you choose the online museum exhibition, see the research guide for HIST 193 - First Year Seminar: Silk Roads and Empires -- Art Exhibition Catalogs.

 

Access points - Moving from Examples (keyword, author, or title) to Categories (Subject)

 

Imperialism and the Silk Road (1800-1900)

Asia, Central -- History -- 19th century 

[country name] -- History -- 19th century

[country name] -- foreign relations -- [country name]

Mackenzie, David. "Central Asia, Russian Conquest of." In The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history, Vol 6: Bu-Ch. Joseph L. Wieczynski, ed. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1976-1993, 157-165. 

The British Empire: a historical encyclopedia. Mark Doyle, ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018.

Soviet Russia Remaking of Central Asia: Nation Building, Language, and Ethnic Identity (1900-1980)

use "1917-1991" for this period in Soviet history

Soviet Union -- Relations -- Asia, Central.

Soviet Union -- Relations -- [Central Asian republic name]

Muslims -- Soviet Union -- History

 

Post-Soviet Order and American Hegemony: Political Islam and the War on Terror (1990-2008)

Muslims -- Asia, Central -- Politics and government
Islam -- Asia, Central -- History
Islam and politics -- Asia, Central

Islam -- [country name] -- History -- 20th century

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017. The Grand Chessboard: American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives. 1st ed. New York: BasicBooks, 1997.

 

Development, Displacement, and the Environment (1990s-Today)

Asia, Central -- Economic conditions -- 1991-

Hyer, Eric. "Central Asia–China Relations." In Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World's Newest and Oldest Global Power, 295-297. Vol. 1. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2009. Gale eBooks (accessed March 4, 2024).

Historical Abstracts - contents include world history journals from 1450 to the present (don't forget the rest of the EBSCO suite)

JSTOR - multidisciplinary, a lot of full text articles, but hard to limit results (try Abstract only in Advanced Search)