For researchers and the culturally curious alike, the Foundation believes the following resources will prove to be very interesting. The Foundation’s own Azerbaijani Heritage Center is a wonderful compendium of cultural and historical resources.
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.
Bey, Essad. Schuster, Elsa, tr. Blood and Oil in the Orient. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1937.
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.
de Waal, Thomas. The Caucasus: An Introduction. USA: Oxford University Press, 2010
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
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. .
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.
Online Resources
American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages, Azeri Language Resources: http://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/azeri.htm
Azerbaijan International: http://azer.com/index.html
Azerbaijan International’s Uzeyir Hajibeyov Site: http://hajibeyov.com
Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/
International Finance Corporation:http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/azerbaijan/
Library of Congress, Azerbaijan Resources:http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/nations/azerbaijan.php
Mugham Society of America: http://www.mugham.net/
U.S. Department of State: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_978.html
WorldBank: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1199807908806/Azerbaijan.pdf
Mugam Radio: http://www.mugamradio.az/about-mugam/mugam-history
Videos
An American’s experience of Azerbaijan, directed and produced by Anar Garibov, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TzWy5kcL8
About Azerbaijan, six non-Azerbaijanis sharing perspectives on Azerbaijan, directed and produced by Anar Garibov, 2010
How did Azerbaijan get its name?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efZMKFYVCz4
CNN and Azerbaijan during the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1991
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nDrit0sfdw
Azerbaijani pomegranate festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brpDXSgazRg
Azerbaijan’s oil gateway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDjFASOuhs
The contemporary Azerbaijani economy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Llc4l8pWA
Chess—the national sport of Azerbaijan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkfCbG3Oy3s
Nowruz in Azerbaijan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWwY2_TzreI
The Azerbaijani Democratic Republic: The first democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlvDCc45gGg
Azerbaijan carpets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-tLF0bh-DU
Mugam: Azerbaijan’s unique folk music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGBBz7BzWEQ
Baku Scenes, 1950-1970 part one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kved38Re2SM
Baku Scenes, 1950-1970 part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEaDdo00hJ8
Blessed Crescent and Star—A documentary film about the Azerbaijani Flag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFrVK_V06ns
Facilities
Contact in advance.
Consulate General of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles
11766 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1410
Los Angeles, Calif. 90025
(310) 444-9101
http://www.azconsulatela.org/
Washington, D.C., Public Library
District of Columbia Public Library
901 G St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 727-0321
http://www.dclibrary.org/
Embassy of Azerbaijan
2741 34th Street Northwest
Washington D.C. 20008
(202) 337-3500
http://www.azembassy.us/new/
The George Washington University, Global Resources Center
2130 H Street, NW
Suite 708
Washington, D.C. 20052
(202) 994-7105
http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/GRC
Karabakh Foundation
1128 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 457-1450
www.KarabakhFoundation.org
Library of Congress, African & Middle Eastern Reading Room
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ 220
Washington, D.C. 20540
(202) 707-9779
http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, 5th floor
New York, N.Y. 10174
(212) 457-1751
http://www.unaoc.org
United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
1212 Potomac Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
(202) 333-8702
http://www.usacc.org
Urban Institute Library
2100 M Street, NW, #500
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 261-5688
http://www.urban.org/
U.S. Azeris Network
Nevada, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
http://www.usazeris.org
World Bank InfoShop
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20433
(202) 458-4500
http://bit.ly/K1IJRd