Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present / Christopher I. Beckwith.
By: Beckwith, Christopher I
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009Description: xxv, 472 pages : map ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691135892; 0691135894Subject(s): Asia, Central -- History | Europe, Eastern -- History | East Asia -- History | Middle East -- HistoryDDC classification: 958Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Asia | General | DS329.4 .B43 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 106934 | |||
Book | British Museum | Middle East | Shelves | CEN C BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | ME000000013269 |
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
ASIAAPR17, ASIA2017