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Hammer and anvil : nomad rulers on the threshold of the modern world /

Distinguished scholar Pamela Crossley offers a rich history of Eurasia, pivoting around the Mongol and Turkic empires. Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, the author argues that these regimes shaped Eurasia's economic, technological and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crossley, Pamela Kyle (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Subjects:
Eurasia > History > To 1500.
Mongols > History.
Civilization, Turkic.
Table of Contents:
  • The lost continent
  • Light-mindedness
  • Steppe power in Medieval Eurasia
  • The Turkic tide
  • Belief and blood
  • Sultans and civilization
  • The age of far conquest
  • The predatory enterprise
  • The empires of the Toluids
  • Return of the Turks
  • The threshold
  • Dissidence and doubt
  • Intimations of nationality
  • Ruling in place.