Nomads as agents of cultural change : the Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amitai, Reuven, editor.

Biran, Michal, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Perspectives on the global past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mongols--History.

Mongols.

History.

Nomads--Eurasia--History.

Nomads.

Eurasia--History.

Eurasia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.

Summary:

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context or" its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographies! "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (die Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500, Others bare placed China at the center of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China's maritime policies. Drawing on sources from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the West, this important new work systematically explores the evolution of imperial Qing maritime policy from 1684 to 1757 and sets its hi icings in the context of early globalization. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0824839781

9780824839789

OCLC:

881207493

Publisher Number:

99961498797