Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
(Part of the Perspectives on the Global Past Series)
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Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger--"barbarians," in fact--their impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824839781
ISBN13:9780824839789
Release Date:December 2014
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:356 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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