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Nomadic empires : from Mongolia to the Danube / Gerard Chaliand ; translated from the French by A.M. Berrett.
Van Pelt Library DS329.4 .C4813 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaliand, Gérard, 1934-
- Standardized Title:
- Empires nomades de la Mongolie au Danube. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Asia, Central--History.
- Asia, Central.
- Central Asia.
- Nomads--Asia, Central--History.
- Nomads.
- Eurasia--History.
- Eurasia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 135 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2004]
- Contents:
- The Impact of the Nomads 1
- Nomads and Settled Peoples 7
- The Nomadic Model: The Scythians 14
- 2. The Military Fronts of the Altaic Nomads (Fourth Century B.C.-Twelfth Century A.D.) 19
- The Chinese Front 21
- The Indo-Iranian Front 35
- The Byzantine Front 39
- The Russian Front 49
- The Exception of Western Europe 53
- 3. The Apogee of the Nomads: Mongols and Turkic-Speakers (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) 59
- The Mongols 59
- The Turkic-Speakers 75
- The Eyewitnesses 86
- 4. The Revenge of the Sedentary Peoples (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) 97
- Russia after the Mongols 97
- China after the Mongols 102
- Periodization of Nomad Waves 105
- Nomad Empires of High Asia 107
- Sites of Waves of Invasions 108.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-129) and index.
- ISBN:
- 076580204X
- OCLC:
- 52348837
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