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Mongols, Turks, and others : Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran.

Contributor(s): Series: Brill's Inner Asian library ; v. 11.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.Description: xx, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9004140964
  • 9789004140967
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Mongols, Turks, and others.DDC classification:
  • 950/.04942 22
LOC classification:
  • DS19 .M648 2005
Contents:
Early pastoral societies of Northeast China : local change and interregional interaction during c. 1100-600 BCE / Gideon Shelach -- Beasts or humans : pre-imperial origins of the "sino-barbarian" dichotomy / Yuri Pines -- Early Eurasian nomads and the civilizations of the Ancient Near East (eighth-seventh centuries BCE) / Askold I. Ivantchik -- What nomads want : raids, invasions and the liao conquest of 947 / Naomi Standen -- True to their ways : why the Qara Khitai did not convert to Islam / Michal Biran -- The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in medieval Arabic writing / Yehoshua Frenkel -- The Mongols and the faith of the conquered / Peter Jackson -- The "great yasa of Chinggis Khan" revisited / David Morgan -- A reappraisal of Guyug Khan / Hodong Kim -- War and peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312-1323) / Liu Yingsheng -- The resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk war / Reuven Amitai -- Mongols and merchants on the Black Sea frontier in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : convergences and conflicts / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Nomad and settled in the Timurid military / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- The Mongols and China : cultural contacts and the changing nature of pastoral nomadism (twelfth to early twentieth centuries) / Elizabeth Endicott -- Russia and the Eurasian Steppe nomads : an overview / Moshe Gammer -- Contemporary pastoralism in Central Asia / Anatoly M. Khanzanov, Kenneth H. Shapiro.
Summary: The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early pastoral societies of Northeast China : local change and interregional interaction during c. 1100-600 BCE / Gideon Shelach -- Beasts or humans : pre-imperial origins of the "sino-barbarian" dichotomy / Yuri Pines -- Early Eurasian nomads and the civilizations of the Ancient Near East (eighth-seventh centuries BCE) / Askold I. Ivantchik -- What nomads want : raids, invasions and the liao conquest of 947 / Naomi Standen -- True to their ways : why the Qara Khitai did not convert to Islam / Michal Biran -- The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in medieval Arabic writing / Yehoshua Frenkel -- The Mongols and the faith of the conquered / Peter Jackson -- The "great yasa of Chinggis Khan" revisited / David Morgan -- A reappraisal of Guyug Khan / Hodong Kim -- War and peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312-1323) / Liu Yingsheng -- The resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk war / Reuven Amitai -- Mongols and merchants on the Black Sea frontier in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : convergences and conflicts / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Nomad and settled in the Timurid military / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- The Mongols and China : cultural contacts and the changing nature of pastoral nomadism (twelfth to early twentieth centuries) / Elizabeth Endicott -- Russia and the Eurasian Steppe nomads : an overview / Moshe Gammer -- Contemporary pastoralism in Central Asia / Anatoly M. Khanzanov, Kenneth H. Shapiro.

The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world.

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