Research Catalog

Title

Nomads as agents of cultural change : the Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Amitai, Reuven
• Biran, Michal

Description

ix, 345 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context or" its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographies! "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (die Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic. Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500, Others bare placed China at the center of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China's maritime policies. Drawing on sources from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the West, this important new work systematically explores the evolution of imperial Qing maritime policy from 1684 to 1757 and sets its hi icings in the context of early globalization. Book jacket.

Series Statement

Perspectives on the global past

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Perspectives on the global past

Alternative Title

Mongols and their Eurasian predecessors

Subject

• Nomade
• Mongolen
• Kulturwandel
• Mongols > History
• Nomads > Eurasia > History
• Mongols
• Nomads
• Eurasien
• Eurasia > History
• Eurasia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-329) and index.

Contents

Introduction: nomadic culture / Michal Biran -- Steppe land interactions and their effects on Chinese cultures during the second and early first millennia BCE / Gideon Shelach-Lavi -- The Scythians and their neighbors / Anatoly Khazanov -- From steppe roads to silk roads: inner Asian nomads and early interregional exchange / William Honeychurch -- The use of sociopolitical terminology for nomads: an excursion into the term buluo in Tang China / Isenbike Togan -- Population movements in the Mongolian era / Thomas T. Allsen -- The Mongols and nomadic identity: the case of the Kitans in China / Michal Biran -- Persian notables and the families which underpinned the Ilkhanate / George Lane -- The Mongol empire and its impact on the arts of China / Morris Rossabi -- The impact of the Mongols on the history of Syria: politics, society, and culture / Reuven Amitai -- The Tatar factor in the formation of Muscovy's political culture / Istvan Vasary -- Mongol historiography since 1985: the rise of cultural history / David Morgan.

ISBN

• 9780824839789
• 0824839781

LCCN

• ^^2014012570
• 40024490368

OCLC

• 881207493
• SCSB-13745990

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library