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Culture and conquest in Mongol Eurasia /
"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 and displayed across Eurasia. The focus of this pat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 and displayed 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 lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, and from agriculture to astronomy. Unexpectedly, the principal conduit of this transmission was an obscure Mongol tribesman, Bolad Aqa, who first served Chinggisid rulers of China and was then posted to Iran where he entered into a close and productive collaboration with the famed Persian statesman and historian. Rashid al-Din. The conclusion of the work examines 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. The book is informative and erudite. It crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol Empire and promises to become a classic in the field."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511017820 9780511017827 0521803357 9780521803359 0511119569 9780511119569 0511032714 9780511032714 052160270X 9780521602709 9780511497445 051149744X 9780511047985 0511047983 0511153694 9780511153693 9786610159468 6610159467 1107123275 9781107123274 1280159464 9781280159466 0511325177 9780511325175 |