Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors

It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history.Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as activ...

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Other Authors: Amitai, Reuven (Editor), Biran, Michal (Editor), Yang, Anand A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2014]
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Summary:It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history.Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic and sedentary worlds
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Nov 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource 14 b&w images, 5 maps
ISBN:9780824847890

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