Nomads as agents of cultural change : the Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran.
Contributor(s): Amitai, Reuven [editor of compilation.] | Biran, Michal [editor of compilation.].
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BookSeries: Perspectives on the global past: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015Description: ix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780824839789 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Mongols -- History | Nomads -- Eurasia -- History | Eurasia -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.9/06918095 Online resources: Book review (H-Net) | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-329) and index.
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.
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