Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors 9780824847890
Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the developmen
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Dates and Transliterations
1. Introduction: Nomadic Culture
2 Steppe Land Interactions and Their Effects on Chinese Cultures during the Second and Early First Millennia BCE
3. The Scythians and Their Neighbors
4 From Steppe Roads to Silk Roads: Inner Asian Nomads and Early Interregional Exchange
5 The Use of Sociopolitical Terminology for Nomads: An Excursion into the Term Buluo in Tang China
6. Population Movements in Mongol Eurasia
7. The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: The Case of the Kitans in China
8. Persian Notables and the Families Who Underpinned the Ilkhanate
9. The Mongol Empire and Its Impact on the Arts of China
10. The Impact of the Mongols on the History of Syria: Politics, Society, and Culture
11. The Tatar Factor in the Formation of Muscovy’s Political Culture
12. Mongol Historiography since 1985: Th e Rise of Cultural History
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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