Edward A. Allworth was an American historian specializing in Central Asia. Allwarth is widely regarded as the West’s leading scholar on Central Asian studies. He extensively studied the various ethnic groups of the region, including Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Bukharan Jews. He wrote numerous books on the history of Central Asia.
Books by Allworth Publications Year Book Notes Publisher1964Uzbek Literary Politics Mouton & Company1965Central Asian Publishing and the Rise of Nationalism An essay and a list of publications in the New York Public Library The New York Public Library 1967Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule Columbia University Press1971Soviet Nationality Problems Coauthored by Alexandre Bennigsen Columbia University Press1971The Nationalities of the Soviet East: Publications and Writing Systems A bibliographical directory and transliteration tables for Iranian-and Turkic-language publications, 1818-1945, located in U.S. libraries Columbia University Press1973The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia Praeger Publishers1976Soviet Asia Bibliographies: Compilation of Social Science and Humanities Sources on the Iranian, Mongolian and Turkic Nationalities Praeger Publishers1977Nationality Group Survival in Multi-ethnic States: Shifting Support Patterns in the Soviet Baltic Region Edited by Edward A. Allworth Praeger Publishers1980Ethnic Russia in the USSR: The Dilemma of Dominance Pergamon Press1983The Search for Group Identity in Turkistan, March 1917-September 1922 Canadian-American Slavic Studies1989Central Asia Edited by Edward A. Allworth Duke University Press1989Central Asia: 120 years of Russian Rule Duke University Press1990The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Hoover Institution Press1994Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance Duke University Press1996The Rediscovery of Central Asia: The Region Reflected in Two Collections of the New York Public Library The New York Public Library1998Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities Coauthored by Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, and Annette Bohr Cambridge University Press1998The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland Duke University Press2000The Preoccupations of Abdalrauf Fitrat, Bukharan Nonconformist: An Analysis and List of His Writings Das Arabische Buch2002Evading Reality: The Devices of Abdalrauf Fitrat, Modern Central Asian Reformist Brill Academic Publishers2003The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual: The Diary of Muhammad Sharif-I Sadr-I Ziya Edited by Edward A. Allworth Brill Academic Publishers
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