Eurasian empires in antiquity and the early middle ages, 

Автор: Kim Hyun Jin
Название: Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 110719041X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107190412
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Studies the history, literature and archaeology of the great empires of the vast Eurasian continent from a comparative, interdisciplinary and, in particular, a Eurasian perspective. It highlights the critical role of Inner Asian empires and peoples in facilitating contacts and exchanges across Eurasia in the ancient and early medieval worlds.

Автор: Edited By Nicola Di
Название: Empires and exchanges in eurasian late antiquity
ISBN: 1107094348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107094345
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Описание: Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.

Автор: Ali Anooshahr
Название: Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires
ISBN: 0190693568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190693565
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires studies how fifteenth and sixteenth century chroniclers grappled with the Turkestani or Turco-Mongol origin stories of their patrons in the newly forming states of the Ottomans, Safavids, Shibanids, Moghuls, and Mughals.

Автор: Linduff, Katheryn M. (university Of Pittsburgh) Su
Название: Ancient china and its eurasian neighbors
ISBN: 1108418619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108418614
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Описание: The organization of this proposed volume makes it an ideal read for university courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It contains the only compendium of material (both archaeological and textual) from the region, so it is valuable as a resource for anyone studying the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia.

Автор: White David Gordon
Название: Daemons Are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
ISBN: 022671490X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226714905
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Описание: A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, D mons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings--d mons--and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: d monology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common d monological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the "inner demons" cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the "outer d mons" that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a "connected histories" approach to Eurasian d monology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place, at the heart of the history of religions discipline.

Автор: Green Nile
Название: The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
ISBN: 0520300920 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520300927
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Описание: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, ThePersianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Capturing the Persianate as process, fourteen essays trace Persian's interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, and Punjabi to identifying the forces that extended 'Persographia, ' the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history's key languages of global exchange.

Автор: Rieber
Название: The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands
ISBN: 1107043093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107043091
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A major new account of the Eurasian borderlands as `shatter zones` where the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing Empires competed for hegemony. Alfred Rieber charts the rise and expansion of these multicultural, conquest empires from the late medieval period through to their collapse in the early twentieth century.

Автор: Allsen, Thomas T.
Название: The royal hunt in Eurasian history /
ISBN: 0812239261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812239263
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From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over the countryside. The hunt was, in fact, the "court out-of-doors," an open-air theater for displays of majesty, the entertainment of guests, and the bestowal of favor on subjects.
In the conduct of interstate relations, great hunts were used to train armies, show the flag, and send diplomatic signals. Wars sometimes began as hunts and ended as celebratory chases. Often understood as a kind of covert military training, the royal hunt was subject to the same strict discipline as that applied in war and was also a source of innovation in military organization and tactics.
Just as human subjects were to recognize royal power, so was the natural kingdom brought within the power structure by means of the royal hunt. Hunting parks were centers of botanical exchange, military depots, early conservation reserves, and important links in local ecologies. The mastery of the king over nature served an important purpose in official renderings: as a manifestation of his possession of heavenly good fortune he could tame the natural world and keep his kingdom safe from marauding threats, human or animal. The exchanges of hunting partners—cheetahs, elephants, and even birds—became diplomatic tools as well as serving to create an elite hunting culture that transcended political allegiances and ecological frontiers.
This sweeping comparative work ranges from ancient Egypt to India under the Raj. With a magisterial command of contemporary sources, literature, material culture, and archaeology, Thomas T. Allsen chronicles the vast range of traditions surrounding this fabled royal occupation.

Автор: Claudia Gerling
Название: Prehistoric Mobility and Diet in the West Eurasian Steppes 3500 to 300 BC: An Isotopic Approach
ISBN: 3110309246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110309249
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential migration as well as the diet and economy of the West Eurasian steppes communities during the 4th, the 3rd and the 1st Millennia BC are approached by applying isotope analysis, specifically 87Sr/86Sr, ?18O, ?15N and ?13C analyses. Adapting a combination of different isotopic systems to a study area of vast spatial and chronological dimension allowed a wide variety of questions to be answered and establishes the beginning of a database of biogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes. Besides the characterisation of mobility and subsistence patterns of the archaeological communities under discussion, attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Age migrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plains in parts of Eastern Europe were made, alongside an evaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis to this context.

Автор: Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran
Название: Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
ISBN: 0824875087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824875084
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger ""barbarians, in fact"" their impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilizations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and physical artifacts, nomads were frequently active contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond. This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of “agents of cultural change.” The beginning chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World. 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.

Автор: Beng
Название: The Eurasian Core And Its Edges
ISBN: 9814519855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814519854
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: With China's transformation into a republic after two millennia as an empire as the starting point, Ooi Kee Beng prompts renowned historian Wang Gungwu through a series of interviews to discuss China, Europe, Southeast Asia and India. What emerges is an exciting and original World History that is neither Eurocentric nor Sinocentric. If anything, it is an appreciation of the dominant role that Central Asia played in the history of most of mankind over the last several thousand years. The irrepressible power of the Eurasian core over the centuries explains much of the development of civilizations founded at the fringes - at its edges to the west, the east and the south. Most significantly, what is recognised as The Global Age today, is seen as the latest result of these conflicts between core and edge leading at the Atlantic fringe to human mastery of the sea - in military and mercantile terms. In effect, human history, which had for centuries been configured by continental dynamics, has only quite recently established a new dimension to counteract these. In summary, Wang Gungwu argues convincingly that "The Global is Maritime".

Автор: Grasskamp
Название: EurAsian Matters
ISBN: 3319756400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319756400
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions.