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Central Asia in World History
Central Asia in World History
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  • Introduces the reader to an important but relatively unknown part of the world
  • Traces Central Asian history from early human settlement to the development of unique modes of adaptation to a difficult terrain and climate and the creation of powerful empires that played major roles in world history
  • Emphasizes Central Asia and its peoples as cultural brokers between East and West
  • Draws on author's vast knowledge of sources in several Central Asian languages

  
A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, and focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.

Index: 

Editors' Preface
Introduction: A Layering of Peoples
Chapter 1: The Rise of Nomadism and the Oasis City-States
Chapter 2: The Early Nomads: "Warfare is Their Business"
Chapter 3: Heavenly Qaghans: The Türks and Their Successors
Chapter 4: The Cities of the Silk Road and the Coming of Islam.
Chapter 5: Crescent over the Steppe: Islam and the Turkic Peoples 
Chapter 6: The Mongol Whirlwind 
Chapter 7: The Later Chinggisids, Temür and the Timurid Renaissance
Chapter 8: The Age of Gunpowder and the Crush of Empires
Chapter 9: The Problems of Modernity
Pronunciation Guide
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author: 

Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Academic Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Center at Rutgers University, where he has taught since 1969. He has been a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Among his books are: Khazar Studies: An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples, Nomads and Sedentary Societies in Medieval Eurasia, and Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs. His articles and chapters in books have also appeared in Russian, Turkish, Kazakh and Hungarian.

"Peter Golden's scholarship has long defined the gold standard in the study of the Turks of Central Asia and has given him a commanding position in Central Asian studies generally. Students of Central Asian history and their teachers owe a great debt of gratitude to Peter Golden for writing this book."--Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Product details

ISBN : 9780195338195

Author: 
Peter B. Golden
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
152 x 231 mm
Pub date
Apr 2011
Series
New Oxford World History
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Central Asia in World History

Central Asia in World History

Central Asia in World History