The Nomadic Leviathan : A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm / Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munkh-Erdene, Lhamsuren, author.

Series:

Inner Asia book series ; Volume 16.

Inner Asia Book Series ; Volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nomads--Asia, Central.

Nomads.

Feudalism--Asia, Central.

Feudalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Devised to legitimize the Republic of China's claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The habit of thought

The state before the Sinocentric paradigm

Inner Asia before the Sinocentric paradigm

The Sinocentric scheme : aim, origins, and theory

Kinship turn and evolutionary schemes

Beyond evolutionary materialism : the military pathway

The Sinocentric paradigm in (frontier) history

The nomadic leviathan : extrahuman transportation and the military constitution

The tribal inner Asia : Biblical ethnology.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004546516

9004546510

OCLC:

1394002689