Nomadic empires : from Mongolia to the Danube /: from Mongolia to the Danube. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Empires nomades de la Mongolie au Danube.
• Further Information: Note: Gerard Chaliand ; translated from the French by A.M. Berrett.
• Other Names: Chaliand, Gérard, 1934-; Berrett, A. M
• Contents: 1. Introduction. The impact of the nomads ; Nomads and settled peoples ; The nomadic model: the Scythians -- 2. The military fronts of the Altaic nomads (fourth century B.C.-twelfth century A.D.). The Chinese front ; The Indo-Iranian front ; The Byzantine front ; The Russian front ; The exception of western Europe -- 3. The apogee of the nomads: Mongols and Turkic-speakers (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries). The Mongols ; The Turkic-speakers ; The eyewitnesses -- 4. The revenge of the sedentary peoples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Russia after the Mongols ; China after the Mongols ; Epilogue -- Appendices. Periodization of nomad waves ; Nomad empires of high Asia ; Sites of waves of invasions.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (147 pages)
• Subjects: 958.01; Nomads -- Asia, Central -- History; Nomads; Geschiedenis (vorm); Nomade; Asia, Central -- History; Eurasia -- History; Asia, Central; Eurasia; Eurasien; Zentralasien; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351502924; 1351502921
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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