In general, Silk Road history has been dominated by the imperialist perspective resulting in the loss of historic voice of those who inhabit Central Asia. Historical perspectives have been dominated by political and military lens, which only provide a small portion of the Silk R…
The story of silk is an old and familiar one, a tale involving mercantile travel and commercial exchange along the broad land mass that connects ancient China to the west and extending eventually to sites on the eastern Mediterranean and along sea routes to India. But if we shif…
Russia's relationship with the Kazakhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved from that of a pre-modern Muscovite state with several Inner-Asian nomadic neighbors, to that of a more centralized bureaucratic Russian Empire influenced by the European Enlightenment. The…
The Deep Web is an area of the web that contains unstructured data where entrance may be gained through either through TOR or other anonymizers. Law enforcement is attempting to meet the challenge; however, due to lack of trained professionals, criminals are performing criminal …
Despite its distinct place as one of the world's great religious traditions, the religion propagated by the Iranian prophet Mani deliberately and vigorously adapted a variety of concepts from competing faiths to meet its own ends. Mani did not view himself as merely one prophet …
This dissertation studies Eurasian cultural interactions along the so-called Silk Road by examining the role in the culture of the Islamic Near East of a product from Central Eurasia. Musk, produced by the musk deer of the highlands of Central Eurasia, was the most important aro…
