Nomads as agents of cultural change: the Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors

Introduction: nomadic culture / Michal Biran -- Steppe land interactions and their effects on Chinese cultures during the second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach-Lavi -- The Scythians and their neighbors / Anatoly Khazanov -- From steppe roads to silk roads: inner Asian nomads and earl...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu Univ. of Hawai'i Press 2015
Series:Perspectives on the global past
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Summary:Introduction: nomadic culture / Michal Biran -- Steppe land interactions and their effects on Chinese cultures during the second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach-Lavi -- The Scythians and their neighbors / Anatoly Khazanov -- From steppe roads to silk roads: inner Asian nomads and early interregional exchange / William Honeychurch -- The use of sociopolitical terminology for nomads: an excursion into the term buluo in Tang China / Isenbike Togan -- Population movements in the Mongolian era / Thomas T. Allsen -- The Mongols and nomadic identity: the case of the Kitans in China / Michal Biran -- Persian notables and the families which underpinned the Ilkhanate / George Lane -- The Mongol empire and its impact on the arts of China / Morris Rossabi -- The impact of the Mongols on the history of Syria: politics, society, and culture / Reuven Amitai -- The Tatar factor in the formation of Muscovy's political culture / Istvan Vasary -- Mongol historiography since 1985: the rise of cultural history / David Morgan
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:ix, 345 p. ill., map
ISBN:9780824839789
0824839781

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