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- Summary, etc."The second phase of Roman-steppe r......s began during the latter part of the fourth century......groups entered the western steppes, and lasted through the early sixth ce......ury. This "Age of Attila" saw ma...... decades after the battle of Adrianople, Hu......ified early in the fifth century with a center of power in the Hungarian plain"--
- Contents...chael Maas How the Steppes Became Byzantine: Rome and the Eurasian Nomad....../ Michael Maas The Relations between China and the Steppe from the Xiongnu to the Turk Empire / Nicola Di Co......anian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late ......d Topographies of Power / Matthew P. Canepa Tra......xchanges along the Silk and Stepp......ian Culture on the Silk Road / Ro......Contacts along the Silk Road in L...... / Peter Brown The Synthesis of the Tang Dynasty: The Culmination of China's Contac......entral asia in the late roman men......ck J. Geary Northern Invaders: Mi......erspectives on the History of the Northern Dynas...
- Subject Heading...Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. China--Hist...
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- Summary, etc.This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparati......rs on specific empires, its two volu......leled coverage of imperialism th......from Africa to the Americas. Only......ew decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it i......nd remains one of the most enduring forms of political orga......not understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving......isively beyond the study of individual cas......riods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these v...
- Contents...aura Hostetler Empire and religion /......Literature and empire: difference, c....../ Javed Majeed Empires and the politics of difference: pathways of incorporation ......rebellion, and the subaltern / Ki......al metabolism: empire as a process of ecologically u......vironments and empires in world hist......erson Memories of empire: literature an......hiroze Vasunia The end of empires / John A. Hall Volume 2. The near-eastern "invention" of empire (third millenn......Moreno García The Sargonic and Ur III empires / Piotr Steinkeller The empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian world empire / Gojko Barjamovic The Achaem...
- Related MaterialThe Oxford world history of empire The imperial experience The history of empires
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- Subject Heading...tory--To 1393. Steppes--Bulgaria--His......ory--To 1500. Other (Philosophy)--Social aspects...
- Note (General)Originally published in Bulgarian: Sofii͡a : Izdatelska kŭshta Guten...
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- Summary, etc....hing less than the story of how humans fir......arted building the globalized wor......00 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth cen......ry', it charts the development of European, Near......ilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe c......om Mongolia to the Great Hungaria......a year). Along the way, it is also the story of the rise and fall of empires, the development of maritime trade, and the shattering impact of predatory nomads on their urban neighb......ying factors - the acquisitive nature of humanit...
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- Contents1. The Rise of the Seljuks: From the Eurasian Steppe to the Gates of Cairo, c. 965-...... and Collapse: The Great Seljuk Empire and the Sultanate of Iraq, 1092-119......Legitimacy and the Contest with the Caliphate 4. The Dargāh: Courts...... Court Life 5. The Kuttāb: Bureau......inistration 6. The 'Askar: The Seljuk Militar....... Religion and the Seljuk Empire 8. The Economic and S......l Organisation of the Seljuk Lands Conclusion: The Seljuk Legacy.
- Note (Content)The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state ......hich dominated the Middle East an......entral Asia in the eleventh and t...... which was one of exceptional im......, witnessing profound demographi......ial changes in the Islamic Middle East. The Turkish invasi......e in provoking the Crusades, led to the collapse of Byzantine powe...... brought about the beginnings of Turkish settle......ently altering their ethnic and linguistic compo...
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- Summary, etc."The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasi......ships, carried their commodities,......cross Eurasia. The result was an ...... that traveled the length of the routes, and which is preserve...
- ContentsPastoral nomads and the empires of the steppe Early C......a : prelude to the Silk Roads Zha......o Central Asia The early Han Dynasty and the eastern Silk Roads Rome and the western Silk Roads The Parthian Empire and the Silk Roads The Kushan Empire : at the crossroads of ancient Eurasi......aritime routes of the first Silk Roa......s era Collapse of empires and the decline of the first Silk Roads era.
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- Summary, etc....al exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian conti......vers thousands of years of human history, from the 3rd millennium BCE to the early 2nd mill......ensive volume, The World of the Ancient Silk R......t region, many of which are publ......in English for the first time. It......ive references of primary and se......ary sources in their original lan......ge cultures to the rise of regional Islamic empires, from the Mediterranean to the Yellow River b......olume seeks to offer new insight......oad studies to the Anglophone world. The World of the Ancient Silk R......s and scholars of world history, particularly t...
- Contents... Lived Between Empires / Jia Tiken 13. Images of Knights on the Great Silk Roa......ise and Demise of Jingjue Kingdom, a Case of Tarim Oasis Po......, Jiaohe, and Other Turfan Cemeteries: The Movement of People, Ideas,......ka 16. Turfan, the Frontier Trans......avan Cities in the Roman Near Eas......sh Cameron 18. The Chitral Yaßyu ......e Southward in the 1st Century BC...... 19. Kabul and the Regional Centers of Eastern Afghanistan in Their Historical P......naba 20. Roads of Swat: New Pers....... Olivieri 21. The Silk Road and the "Cotton Road":......ntral Asia and the Western Deccan......s and Networks of Exchange Prior To and Followi...
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- Summary, etc."The Russo-Turkish War was one of the most decisive conflicts of the 18th century. ......, Brian Davies offers a thorough survey of the war and explai......was crucial to the political triumph of Catherine the Great, the southward expansion of the Russian Empire, and the rollback of Ottoman power from southeastern Europe. The war completed the incorporation of Ukraine into the Russian Empire, ended the independence of the great Cossack ......ce and for all the military threat from the Crimean Khanate, began the partitions of Poland, and encouraged Catherine II to plan......ts to complete the 'liberation' of the lower Danubian and Balkan...
- Subject HeadingCatherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1......story--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. Russia. Turkey.
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- Summary, etc."The Routledge Handbook of East Central a......tern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. W......ave recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European conti......t into surveys of the Middle Ages, f......d attention to the region, its sp......ures, problems of chronology, an......han two thirds of the European conti......is book covers the history of the whole region, from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin, and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. I......es an overview of the current state of research...
- Contents...ksandar Uzelac The Baltic Crusade......y writing / Timofei V. Guimon, A......sco Dall'Aglio The Mongols in Eastern Europe / R...
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- Summary, etc....arly treatment of Mongol history for the wider public, offering a compre......toric times to the modern age. Ex......beginning with the historical conditions of the inner Asian steppe prior to the rise of Genghis Khan, ......Genghis times, the Mongolian west......is legacy from the decline of the Yuan dynasty to the present day. F......rum include proof of the north-south Bo......nsive evidence of handicraft pro......and metalwork. The books clear prose, beautiful ...
- Contents...ds and peoples of Mongolia Mongo......ia : heartland of Asia / James B......ancient hearth of Central Asia /......Jacoby Masters of the steppe : peoples of Mongolia / Dav......an shamanism : the mosaic of performed memo......nature : music of the Mongols / Pete......h Precursor to empire : early cultur......ag Amartuvshin Empire building before the Mongols : legacies of the Türks and Uyg...... and polity on the steppe / Isenb......s Rossabi "All the Khan's horses"......troduction to "The secret history of the Mongols" / Pau......Ancient cities of the steppe / J. Da...... : excavations of the ruins at Avraga / Noriyuki Sh...
- Note (General)...st appeared at the Houston Museum of Natural Scienc...... by University of Washington Press, [2009].
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- Contents...a After Rome : empire, Christianity,...... connections : the Mongol empires Beyond the Mediterranean ......an and Spanish empires Oceanic econo......ope, Asia, and the Americas Beyond the steppe : empire-building in Russia and China Empire, nation, and c......olutionary age Empires across continents : the United States ......ires and myths of modern colonia......overeignty and empire : nineteenth-c......ion in a world of empires, 1914 to 1945 End of empire? Empires, states, and political imagi...
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- ContentsZooarchaeology in the twenty-first c......and mammals in the Upper Palaeolithic of Russia / Mietj......hail V. Sablin The zooarchaeology of complexity and......ization during the Upper Palaeoli......d evenness / Katherine Boyle Meso......and fishing in the coastal and te......l environments of the eastern Baltic......ting scenarios of early coloniza......Neolithization of Cyprus / Jean-......yland sites in the Central Alpine......archaeology in the Carpathian Bas......(Italy) across the Iron Age/Roman transition : the evidence from ......Zooarchaeology of the Scandinavian s......oitation in northern Scotland from prehistory to...
- Note (Content)...n history, and the study of their remains from...... understanding of our past. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-......dge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over tha...... holistic view of the roles played b......ng scholars in the field incorpor......viding a sense of the dynamism of the discipline, the many approache......s, and an idea of the huge range of interactions t......als throughout the world and its ......y. Adaptations of human-animal r......s as varied as the Arctic, temper......ests, deserts, the tropics, and the sea are discus...... while studies of hunter-gatherers, farmers, he...
Pipe dreams : water and empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin (Studies in environment and history)
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- ContentsIntroduction The land beyond the rivers: Russians on the Amu Darya and ......irrigation and empire on the hungry steppe ...... governance in the irrigation age The land of bread and hone...... subversion in the land of seven rivers Sundering the chains of nature: Bolshe......nals Epilogue: the fate of the Aral Sea Conclusion.
- Note (Content)The drying up of the Aral Sea - a m......al catastrophe of the late twentieth......eply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteent......reneurs around the world united in the belief that un......knowledge, together with modern t......rm large areas of the planet from 'w...... prosperity to the deserts, the transformation of Central Asia's...... projects bore the hallmarks of a colonial exp......-age fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legit......perspective to the history of Russia's conquest and rule of Central Asia.
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- Summary, etc.From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East an......th Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic......mental history of the region, it shows the intimate conne......nments and how these relationship......ical powers in the region based their rule on the management and control of natural resour......communion with the natural world. To grasp how these multiple his......ere central to the pasts of the Middle East an...... North Africa, the chapters in th...... book evidence the power of environmental ......up new avenues of scholarly inquiry.
- Contents...ental history: the fallow between....../ Alan Mikhail The eccentricity of the Middle East an......imal energy in the arid zone / Ri......ard W. Bulliet The Little Ice Age crisis of the Ottoman Empire: a conjuncture......rough an ocean of sand: pastoralism and the equestrian culture of the Eurasian Stepp......onal parks and the politics of environmental ......Davis Building the past: rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam......cy Y. Reynolds The rise and decline of environmentali...... Makdisi State of nature: the politics of water in the making of Saudi Arabia /......ones Expanding the Nile's watershed: the science and politics of land ...
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- Summary, etc.... new material, the second edition of Central Asian ......cture explores the prehistoric an......hat influenced the Golden Age of inner Eurasia during the medieval era"--
- ContentsA short history of excavation and......es & artifacts of Central Asia C......aving products The steppe Bronze ...... Eastern parts of Central Asia: ......ze Age Satrapy of Parthia Sassannian empire: the birth of a state religion Satrapy of Soghdia (Soghdiana).
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- Summary, etc.In this book, a team of international ......holars examine the rise, fall, and legacy of the Mongol world empire.
- Contents...eter B. Golden The Mongol age in ...... Peter Jackson The Mongols in Cen......'s invasion to the rise of Temür : the Ögödeid and Ch....../ Michal Biran The Jochid realm : the western steppe......slamization in the Mongol Empire / Devin Dewees......omas T. Allsen The eastern steppe...... regimes after the Yuan (1368-163......Veit Temür and the early Timurids......ce Forbes Manz The later Timurids...... / Yuri Bregel The western steppe......n, Siberia and the Crimea / Allen......James Millward The Chinggisid res......R.D. McChesney The western steppe : the Volga-Ural reg......n, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule / C...
- Alternative TitleHistory of Inner Asia Chinggisid age
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- Title HeadingEmpire des steppes. English
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- Summary, etc....g roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese bord......as been called the 'pivot of history,' a la......raders changed the destinies of states that ri......modern Europe, the Middle East, a......gaging account of this important...... prehistory to the present, and f......ing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that ......lden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold ......ia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan a......is successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based ...
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- ContentsConflict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Bas......revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar Qaganate ......New remarks on the flow of Byzantine coin......alachia during the second half of the seventh centur......gyi Bulgars in the Lower Danube r......gion: a survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current resear......echnologies in the Carpathian Bas......tal finds from the foreststeppe b......on-Szmoniewski The earliest Avar-......e stirrups, or the "stirrup contr......urta A note on the "Hungarian sabers" of medieval Bulga......azaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene / Ves...
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- Summary, etc.This work reconstructs how the Soviet governm......y to transform the society, polit......cs and culture of its outlying r......arch revealing the Soviets' colonial dominion of the Kazakhs.
- Contents... Brief History of Kazakhstan Kaz......azakh Medicine The Roots of Biomedicine in......ns and Methods of Biomedical Propaganda The Construction of Kazakh Culture......cal Propaganda The Doctor-Hero in......its and Impact of the Biomedical Dri...... Education and the Formation of a New Elite The Expansion of Biomedical Edu......al Persecution The Politics of the Medical Curric......ical Cadres in the Field Facility......ve Health Care The Impact of Medical and Pu......vices Practice The Politics of Women's Health......shevik Visions of Emancipation K......zakh Women and the OMM: Clinical ...... Policy toward the Kazakh Nomads "Islands in the...
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