Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800) Nicola Di Cosmo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cosmo Di, Nicola, editor.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies 6.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oorlogvoering.

Kriegführung.

Asia, Central--History, Military.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Summary:

Military developments in Inner Asia lay at the basis of the rise of a number of Ancient and Early Modern Empires. This is the first scholarly work to embrace Inner Asian military history across a broad spatial and chronological spectrum, from the Turks and Uighurs to the Pechenegs, and from the Mongol invasion of Syria to the Manchu conquest of China. Based on previously unknown and until now underestimated sources, the contributors to this volume explore the context, development, and characteristic features of Inner Asian warfare, making original contributions to our understanding of Asian and world history.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nicola di Cosmo

Inner Asian Ways of Warfare in Historical Perspective / Nicola Di Cosmo

Strategy and Contingency in the Tang Defeat of the Eastern Turks, 629-630 / David A. Graff

The Uighur-Chinese Conflict of 840-848 / Michael R. Drompp

War and Warfare in the Pre-Činggisid Western Steppes of Eurasia / Peter B. Golden

The Battle of Herat (1240): A Case of Inter-Mongol Warfare / Michal Biran

Whither the Ilkhanid Army? Ghazan’s First Campaign into Syria (1299–1300) / Reuven Amitai

The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire / Thomas T. Allsen

The Mongol Conquest of Dali: The Failed Second Front / John E. Herman

Military Aspects of the Manchu Wars against the Čaqars / Nicola Di Cosmo

Fate and Fortune in Central Eurasian Warfare: Three Qing Emperors and their Mongol Rivals / Peter C. Perdue

Military Ritual and the Qing Empire / Joanna Waley-Cohen

General Index / Nicola di Cosmo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004391789

9004391789

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004391789 DOI