Description: Eurasian Crossroads is an engaging and comprehensive account of Xinjiang's history and people from earliest times to the present day. This revised and updated edition features new empirically grounded and balanced analysis of developments in the region up to the present, focusing on the circumstances of the Uyghur and Xinjiang peoples.
Review Quotes: Eurasian Crossroads remains the best introduction to the history of this region. It draws out key phenomena and questions for each period, building from ecology and archaeology to ethnic politics. This edition includes an accessible analysis of contemporary events in context. This book was once pathbreaking--today it is essential.--Eric Schluessel, author of Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia