The Mongol legacy in Central Asia

Abulghazi Bahadur Khan (1603–1663).  Histoire des Mongols et des Tatares.  Petr I Desmaisons, baron, trans.  St. Leonards, France: Ad Orientem, 1970.
In English: A general history of the Turks, Moguls and Tatars, vulgarly called Tartars: together with a description of the countries they inhabit, in two volumes: I. The genealogical history of the Tatars, translated from the Tatar manuscript written in the Mogul language by Abu'l Ghâzi Bahâder, Khân of Khowârazm; II. An account of the present state of the Northern Asia, as it includes Grand Tatary. . .  London: Printed for J.and J. Knapton, 1729–1730.  Internet version available via Thomson Gale, 2003.
Or The Shajrat ul Atrak, or, Genealogical tree of the Turks and Tatars,  London, W.H. Allen and co., 1838.

Bartol’d, Vasilii V.  Four Studies on the History of Central Asia.  Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1956.  Bartol’d died in 1930, but scholars till rely on his work. These three small volumes are dense reading, but are the only English-language source of information on some topics.  Focus on the Mongol ulus of Chaghatay and the Timurid rulers.

Benson, Linda and Ingvar Svanberg, China’s Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China’s Kazaks. Armonk, NY, 1998. Very accessible book on a rarely-studied group.

Bregel, Yuri. An Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2003. It’s expensive, but there’s no better collection of maps and historical text.

Deweese, Devin. Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. Deep scholarly study of Turko-Mongol cultural change.

Geiss, Paul Georg. Pre-Tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment and political order in change (London: Routledge, 2003).   Contains helpful if misleadingly neat tables of tribal confederations and their constituent sub-tribes. Use in short excerpts or for advanced students; the writing is dense and sometimes the English is convoluted.

Manz, Beatrice Forbes. The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Brief and clear explanation of what the Mongols gave to Eurasian cultures (political/administrative continuity) and took from them (languages and religions). Detailed discussion of the many cultural streams that fed into Tamerlane’s empire.

May, Timothy. The Mongol Conquests in World History.  London: Reaktion Books, 2012.  An excellent one-volume study; one of the few that includes the Ulus of Chaghatay.

McChesney, Robert D. Central Asia: Foundations of Change. Princeton, NJ: The Darwin Press, 1996. Chapter Four, “Law, Leadership, and Legitimacy” (pp. 117–148) is a thorough and very readable account of the Mongol political legacy in Central Asia.