Central Asia in world history /

"A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the 'pivot of history, ' a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golden, Peter B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Colección:New Oxford world history.
Temas:
Geopolitics > Asia, Central > History.
Géopolitique > Asie centrale > Histoire.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > General.
Civilization
Geopolitics
Strategic aspects of individual places
Asia, Central > History.
Asia, Central > Civilization.
Asia, Central > Strategic aspects.
Asie centrale > Histoire.
Asie centrale > Civilisation.
Asie centrale > Aspect stratégique.
Central Asia
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a layering of peoples
  • The rise of nomadism and oasis city-states
  • The early nomads: "sarfare is their business"
  • Heavenly Qaghans: the Türks and their successors
  • The cities of the Silk Road and the coming of Islam
  • Crescent over the Steppe: Islam and the Turkic peoples
  • The Mongol whirlwind
  • The later Chinggisids, Temür and the Timurid renaissance
  • The age of tunpowder and the crush of empires
  • The problems of modernity.

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