"This work traces the history of the nomadic steppe tribes and sedentary inhabitants of the oasis city-states of Ce
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English Pages 178 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Content: Introduction: A layering of peoples --
The rise of nomadism and oasis city-states --
The early nomads : "Warfare 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 gunpowder and the crush of empires --
The problems of modernity.