Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia / Thomas T. Allsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allsen, Thomas T., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mongols--Eurasia.

Mongols.

China--Relations--Iran.

China.

Iran--Relations--China.

Iran.

China--Civilization--960-1644.

Iran--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Culture & Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. This is a work of great erudition which crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol empire.

Contents:

pt. I. Background

1. Introduction

2. Before the Mongols

pt. II. Political-Economic Relations

3. Formation of the Il-qans, 1251-1265

4. Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265-1295

5. Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295-1304

6. Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304-1335

7. Economic ties

8. Overview of the relationship

pt. III. Intermediaries

9. Marco Polo and Po-lo

10. Qubilai and Bolad Aqa

11. Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank

pt. IV. Cultural Exchange

12. Historiography

13. Geography and cartography

14. Agriculture

15. Cuisine

16. Medicine

17. Astronomy

18. Printing

pt. V. Analysis and Conclusions

19. Models and methods

20. Agency

21. Filtering

22. Summation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-237) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12327-5

1-280-15946-4

0-511-32517-7

0-511-11956-9

0-511-15369-4

0-511-49744-X

0-511-04798-3

0-521-80335-7

OCLC:

475917734