Uzbekistan: Heirs to the Silk Road

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London 1997 Paperback Very Good; 9.5 x 12 Paperback in Very Good condition Illustrated by 437 color plates; English language edition of a major German museum exhibition catalog of ... the material culture of the Uzbeks. Originally published in Stuttgart in 1996. 190 color plates are of rugs and textiles.; 5; 368 pp. Read more Show Less

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Since its rediscovery by European explorers and travelers in the nineteenthcentury, the Silk Road has lost none of its fascination. It continues to evoke images of heavily laden caravans crossing endless deserts, steppes, and mountain ranges to reach the markets of wealthy oasis towns. From the second century BC, this network of merchants' routes, well over 4,000 miles long, linked China and the Roman Empire. It served the trade of luxury goods, notably silk, and stimulated the spread of ideas about religion, culture, and art. The young republic of Uzbekistan, with its ancient urban cultural centers of Bukhara, Chiwa, and Samarkand, is the heartland of the Silk Road. The artistic and cultural history of the region, ...

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	Preface	7
	Acknowledgements	9
	Introduction	11
	Prologue	14
	How It All Began	21
	Uzbekistan and Her Neighbours in Pre-Islamic Times	33
	A Hoard of Graeco-Bactrian Coins at the State Museum of Art and Architecture, Bukhara	39
	China and the West	53
	The Land beyond the River: Islam in Central Asia	68
	Islamic Architecture in Uzbekistan	79
	The Arts of the Book in Central Asia	101
	Is there a Distinctive Central Asian Type of Islamic Art?	117
	Islamic Metalwork, Ninth to Fifteenth Century	123
	Metalwork Since the Fifteenth Century	138
	Ceramics from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century	140
	Like Porcelain: Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Ceramics from Uzbekistan	156
	The Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva and Kokand	166
	Aspects of an Equestrian Culture	169
	Houses and Their Furnishings	189
	The Textile Arts of Uzbekistan	211
	Suzanis: Embroideries from Central Asia	263
	Large Medallion Suzanis: An essay in interpretation	279
	Jewellery of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century	284
	Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century Metalwork	295
	Ceramics of the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century	306
	From the Russian Conquest to the Declaration of Independence	333
	Uzbekistan: Geographical Aspects of a Post-Soviet Successor State in Central Asia	339
	The Aral Sea: A Regional Ecologic Disaster with Global Implications	347
	Bibliography	357
	Picture Credits	360

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