Nomads in the sedentary world
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Nomads in the sedentary world
（Curzon-IIAS Asian studies series）
Routledge, 2007
- : pbk
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"First published 2001 by Routledge ... Transferred to digital printing 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Studies the role played by nomads in the political, linguistic, socio-economic and cultural development of the sedentary world around them. Spans regions from Hungary to Africa, India and China, and periods from the first millennium BC to early modern times.
Table of Contents
- Nomads in the history of the sedentary world
- the case of pre-Cinggisid Rus' and Georgia
- the Khanganate and its impact on the early Rus' state - the translatio imperii from Itil to Kiev
- Cuman integration in Hungary
- herders and archers - comparing the impact of pastoralists and nomads on the history of Asia Minor and the Balkans
- nomads and tribes as a cause of weakness in Iran - a contrary view
- Turko-Mongolian nomads and the Igta system in the Islamic Middle East (ca 1000-1400 AD)
- sharing out the Empire - apportioned lands under the Mongols
- nomads in the Tangut state of Si Sia (982-1227)
- India and the Turko-Mongol frontier
- Steppe empires
- China and the Silk Route -nomads as a force in international trade and politics
- the nomadic factor in Africa - dominance or marginality?
- conclusion.
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