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Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change : The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors /
Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions. This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore how nomads played the role of 'agents of cultural change.'
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: nomadic culture / Michal Biran
- Steppe land interactions and their effects on Chinese cultures during the second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach-Lavi
- The Scythians and their neighbors / Anatoly Khazanov
- From steppe roads to silk roads: inner Asian nomads and early interregional exchange / William Honeychurch
- The use of sociopolitical terminology for nomads: an excursion into the term buluo in Tang China / Isenbike Togan
- Population movements in the Mongolian era / Thomas T. Allsen
- The Mongols and nomadic identity: the case of the Kitans in China / Michal Biran
- Persian notables and the families which underpinned the Ilkhanate / George Lane
- The Mongol empire and its impact on the arts of China / Morris Rossabi
- The impact of the Mongols on the history of Syria: politics, society, and culture / Reuven Amitai
- The Tatar factor in the formation of Muscovy's political culture / Istvan Vasary
- Mongol historiography since 1985: the rise of cultural history / David Morgan.