Central Asian History

History of Central Asia, 4 vols. Edited by Christoph Baumer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

• Volume 1. The Age of the Steppe Warriors
• Volume 2. The Age of the Silk Roads.
• Volume 3. The Age of Islam and the Mongols.
• Volume 4. The Age of Decline and Revival.

The Silk Road

Richard Foltz, Religions on the Silk Road, (1999).

Peter Francopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015). 

Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (2012). View Ebook.

Edward Schafer, The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang Exotics, (1963). View Ebook.

Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road, 2nd ed. (2015). View Ebook.

Francis Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia (2013).

Journal

The Silk Road Journal (2003–2017)

Crossroads of Cuisine (2020) provides a history of foods, and foodways in terms of exchanges taking place in Central Asia and in surrounding areas such as China, Korea or Iran during the last 5000 years, stressing the manner in which East and West, West and East grew together through food. It provides a discussion of geographical foundations, and an interlocking historical and cultural overview going down to the present day, with a comparative country by country survey of foods and recipes