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Mongols, Turks, and others : Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world / / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran



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Titolo: Mongols, Turks, and others : Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world / / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (572 p.)
Disciplina: 950/.04942
Soggetto topico: Mongols - History
Turkic peoples - History
Soggetto geografico: Eurasia History
Altri autori: AmitaiReuven  
BiranMichal  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Dates and Transliterations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100-600 BCE (Gideon Shelach); Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the "Sino-Barbarian" Dichotomy (Yuri Pines); Early Eurasian Nomads and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Eighth-Seventh Centuries BCE) (Askold I. Ivantchik); What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947 (Naomi Standen)
True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam (Michal Biran)The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing (Yehoshua Frenkel); The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered (Peter Jackson); The "Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan" Revisited (David Morgan); A Reappraisal of Güyüg Khan (Hodong Kim); War and Peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312-1323) (Liu Yingsheng); The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War (Reuven Amitai)
Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Convergences and Conflicts (Nicola Di Cosmo)Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military (Beatrice Forbes Manz); The Mongols and China: Cultural Contacts and the Changing Nature of Pastoral Nomadism (Twelfth to Early Twentieth Centuries) (Elizabeth Endicott); Russia and the Eurasian Steppe Nomads: An Overview (Moshe Gammer); Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia (Anatoly M. Khazanov and Kenneth H. Shapiro); Index
Sommario/riassunto: The interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with emphasis on the Mongol and Turkish peoples.
Titolo autorizzato: Mongols, Turks, and others  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-86714-0
9786610867141
1-4294-2739-6
90-474-0633-8
1-4337-0516-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813139903321
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Serie: Brill's Inner Asian library ; ; v. 11.