Reading List

  • Altstadt, Audrey L. The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1992.
  • Atkin, Muriel. Russia and Iran, 1780-1828. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980.
  • Baddeley, J. F. The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus. General Books LLC: New York, 2010.
  • Breyfogle, Nicholas B. Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus Cornell University Press, 2011
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard. USA: Basic Books, 1997.
  • Cornell, Svante. Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus (Caucasus World). Routledge/Curzon, 2001.
  • Crichton-Miller, Emily. Special Report: Azeri Artists Take on the World. The New York Times, 2009.
  • de Waal, Thomas. Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War. NYU Press, 2004.
  • Dumas, Alexandre. Adventures in the Caucasus. New York: Peter Owen, 1963.
  • Elliot, Mark. Azerbaijan with Georgia. United Kingdom: Trailblazer Publications, 1999.
  • Fawcett, L.L. Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijani Crisis of 1946. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1992.
  • Goltz, Thomas. Azerbaijan Diary. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
  • Goltz, Thomas. Requiem for a would-be republic: The rise and demise of the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan: a personal account of the years 1991-1993. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1994.
  • Grant, Bruce. The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus (Culture and Society After Socialism). USA: Cornell University Press, 2009.
  • Hille. State Building and Conflict Resolution in the Caucasus (Eurasian Studies Library). USA: BRILL, 2010.
  • Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game. USA: Kodansha America, 1994.
  • Huseynov, Tabib. Resolving Ethno-Territorial Conflicts: A Case for Mountainous Karabakh . VDM Verlag, 2008
  • Ingram, Edward. The Beginning of the Great Game in Asia, 1828-1834. Oxford, 1979.
  • Isgenderli, Anar. REALITIES OF AZERBAIJAN 1917-1920. Xlibris, 2011.
  • Ismayilov, Ibrahim. Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Conflict or Geopolitics?: Exploring the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
  • Kazemzadeh, Firuz. The struggle for Transcaucasia, 1917-1921. Hyperion Press, 1981.
  • Kruger, Heiko. The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Legal Analysis. Springer, 2010.
  • Lewis, G.L., tr. The Book of Dede Korkut. London: Penguin, 1974.
  • Lynch, Dov. Engaging Eurasia’s Separatist States: Unresolved Conflicts and De Facto States. United States Institute of Peace, 2004.
  • Minorskyii, V. History of Shirvan and Darband. Cambridge University, 1958.
  • Mostashari, Firouzeh. On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus. London: I.B. Taruis, 2006.
  • Murinson, Alexander. Jews in Azerbaijan: a History Spanning Three Millennia (please link to http://www.visions.az/history,112/).
  • Nuriyev, Elkhan. The South Caucasus At The Crossroads: Conflicts, Caspian Oil And Great Power Politics. Germany: Lit Verlag, 2007.
  • Said, Kurban. Ali and Nino. New York: Overlook Press, 1999.
  • Sattarov, Rufat. Islam, State, and Society in Independent Azerbaijan: Between Historical Legacy and Post-Soviet Reality. Germany: Reichert Verlag, 2009.
  • Schuster, Elsa, tr. Blood and Oil in the Orient. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937.
  • Swietochowski, Tadeusz. Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
  • Swietochowski, Tadeusz. Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of National Identity in a Muslim Community. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Tagiyeva, Roya. Azerbaijan Carpets. 1999.
  • Van der Leeuw, Charles. Azerbaijan : A Quest for Identity (Caucasus World). Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  • Van der Leeuw, Charles. Oil and Gas in the Caucasus and Caspian: A History. Great Britain: Curzon Press, 2000.
  • Waal, Thomas de. The Caucasus: An Introduction. USA: Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Wright, Richard E. Caucasian Carpets and Covers: The Weaving Culture. London: Hali Publications, 1995.
  • Wright, Richard E. "On the Origins of Caucasian Village Rugs," Oriental Rug Review. Vol. 10, No. 4 (April/May 1990).
  • Yergin, Daniel. The Prize. New York: Buccaneer Books, 1994.
  • Zbigniew, Brzezinski. The Grand Chessboard. USA: Basic Books, 1997.