Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present / Christopher I. Beckwith.
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TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: xxv, 472 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780691135892 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0691135894 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Asia, Central -- History | Europe, Eastern -- History | East Asia -- History | Middle East -- HistoryDDC classification: 958 LOC classification: DS329.4 | .B43 2009Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-455) and index.
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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