a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present
Christopher I. Beckwith.
Oxford
Princeton University Press
2009.
xxv, 472 p.
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24 cm.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
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University of Tehran. Central Library and Documentation Center