Abstract

This work uses mainly published sources to explore the intellectual history of the very idea of ‘Central Asia’ and cast light on important albeit largely forgotten terminological debates whose scientific and political significance is explained in detail. In the wake of the author’s valued bio-biographical dictionary and introduction to Western exploration in Central Asia (Explorateurs en Asie centrale, 2003) as well as of her Asie centrale. L’invention des frontieres et l’heritage russo-sovie...

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