Central Asia in world history [electronic resource] / Peter B. Golden.
2011
DS329.4 .G598 2011eb
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Title
Central Asia in world history [electronic resource] / Peter B. Golden.
Author
Golden, Peter B.
ISBN
9780199713677 (electronic book)
0199713677 (electronic book)
9780195338195
0195338197
9780195159479
0195159470
0199713677 (electronic book)
9780195338195
0195338197
9780195159479
0195159470
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 178 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number
DS329.4 .G598 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
958
Summary
"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-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, and focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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New Oxford world history.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.