Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors - Perspectives on the Global Past - Reuven Amitai - Books - University of Hawai'i Press - 9780824839789 - December 31, 2014
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Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors - Perspectives on the Global Past

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This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of agents of cultural change. The beginning chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history.

317 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 31, 2014
ISBN13 9780824839789
Publishers University of Hawai'i Press
Pages 317
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 30 mm   ·   703 g
Language English  
Editor Amitai, Reuvan
Editor Biran, Michal

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