The Turks of Central Asia in History and at the Present Day: An Ethnological Inquiry into the Pan-Turanian Problem, and Bibliographical Material relating to the Early Turks and the Present Turks of Central Asia

Abstract

THIS small and closely packed book deals with a big and intricate subject which can be dealt with satisfactorily only on a much larger scale, and it is to be hoped that its talented and learned author will presently give us a larger monograph in which the earlier history of the Turks, with its dramatic ties with the fortunes of Asia and Europe, will be told in much greater detail. It is opportune that such a book should appear when the greatest and most powerful empire established by the Turkish race is passing away, and when the thoughts of many of us are turning with a good deal of interest to the period in its history when the race emerged from the prehistoric age and began its wider sphere of interest. It is not possible in the space which NATURE can spare to do more than give a bare outline of the subject.

The Turks of Central Asia in History and at the Present Day: An Ethnological Inquiry into the Pan-Turanian Problem, and Bibliographical Material relating to the Early Turks and the Present Turks of Central Asia.

By M. A. Czaplicka. Pp. 242. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918.) Price 15s. net.