Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present |
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxv, 472 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mittelasien Asia |
| Online Zugang: |
Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue: The hero and his friends
- The chariot warriors
- The royal Scythians
- Between Roman and Chinese legions
- The age of Attila the Hun
- The Turk 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.
