Mongols, Turks, and others : Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005. |
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| Description: | xx, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 11 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5551922 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Dates and Transliterations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. Early Contacts
- Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100-600 BCE
- Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the "Sino-Barbarian" Dichotomy
- Early Eurasian Nomads and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Eighth-Seventh Centuries BCE)
- Part II. The Pre-Mongol Period
- What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947
- True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam
- The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing
- Part III. The Mongol Empire and Its Successors
- The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered
- The "Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan" Revisited
- A Reappraisal of Guyug Khan
- War and Peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312-1323)
- The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War
- Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Convergences and Conflicts
- Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military
- Part IV. Into the Modern Period
- The Mongols and China: Cultural Contacts and the Changing Nature of Pastoral Nomadism (Twelfth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
- Russia and the Eurasian Steppe Nomads: An Overview
- Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia
- Index
