Uzbekistan

Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Uzbekistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996.

Acknowledgments
Preface

History
Early History

The Early Islamic Period
Mawarannahr
The Mongol Period
Timur
The Uzbek Period
Arrival of the Russians
The Russian Conquest
Entering the Twentieth Century
The Jadidists and Basmachis
The Stalinist Period
Rashidov
The 1980s
Independence

Geography
Climate
Environment

Population
Size and Distribution

Ethnic Composition
Other Social Affiliations

Language and Literature
Linguistic Background
Influences in the Soviet Period
Language in the 1990s
Literature

Religion
Islam in the Soviet Era
Islamic Fundamentalism
Mainstream Islam in the 1990s

Education
Education System

Curriculum
Instruction

Health
Health Care System

Health Conditions

The Economy
Gold
Energy
Agriculture
Industry
Labor Force
Postcommunist Economic Reform
Structural and Legal Reform
Banking and Finance

Government
Postindependence Changes

The Constitution
Local Government
Political Parties
The Media
Human Rights

Foreign Relations
Central Asian States
Russia and the CIS
The Middle East and Pakistan
China
Western Europe and Japan
The United States

Bibliography

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