Empires Of The Silk Road : A History Of Central Eurasia From The Bronze Age to The Present
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Christopher I. Beckwith
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Princeton
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: Princeton University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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XXV,472 p.
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: map
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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