Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present
2009,
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, xxv, 472 pages :
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| Publication information: |
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. |
| ISBN: |
0691135894 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN: |
9780691135892 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
2613425 |
| Variant Title: |
History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
xxv, 472 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
May 3, 2010
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| More creator details: |
Christopher I. Beckwith. |
| General note: |
Map on lining papers. |
| Contents note: |
Prologue: The hero and his friends -- The chariot warriors -- The royal Scythians -- Between Roman and Chinese legions -- The age of Attila the Hun -- The Türk empire -- The Silk Road, revolution, and collapse -- The Vikings and Cathay -- Chinggis Khan and the Mongol conquests -- Central Eurasians ride to a European sea -- The road is closed -- Eurasia without a center -- Central Eurasia reborn -- Epilogue: The Barbarians -- Appendix A: The Proto-Indo-Europeans and their diaspora -- Appendix B: Ancient Central Eurasian ethnonyms. |
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