Moving in the margins : desert travel and power in medieval Central Asia /
"Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of conquerors swiftly rode on horseback. In reality the region is highly fragmented and difficult to traverse, and overcoming these obstacles led to routes becoming associated with...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2024]
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| Series: | Handbuch der Orientalistik. Handbook of Uralic studies ;
v. 32. |
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| Summary: | "Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of conquerors swiftly rode on horseback. In reality the region is highly fragmented and difficult to traverse, and overcoming these obstacles led to routes becoming associated with epic travel and high-value trade. Put simply, the inhabitants of these lands became experts in the art of travelling the margins. This volume seeks to unravel some of the myths of long-distance roads in Central Asia, using a desert case-study to put forward a new hypothesis for how medieval landscapes were controlled and manipulated"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Københavns universitet, 2015, which was presented under the title: Pathways of trade or networks of power? Desert routes in medieval Turkmenistan. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts, plans ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-347) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004534872 9004534873 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8524 ; |