Empires of the Silk Road :a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present
Princeton
Princeton University Press
Map on lining papers
Includes bibliographical references )p. 427-455( and index
Christopher I. Beckwith
Prologue: The hero and his friends -- The chariot warriors -- The royal Scythians -- Between Roman and Chinese legions -- The age of Attila the Hun -- The Tغurk 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