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• catalog abstract ""Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 years, from the fifth century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D., the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a "zone of turbulence," threatening settled peoples from China to Russia and Hungary, including Iran, India, the Byzantine Empire, and even Syria. It was a true world stage that was affected by these destructive nomads."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Empires nomades de la Mongolie au Danube. English".
• catalog contributor b13072720.
• catalog contributor b13072721.
• catalog coverage "Asia, Central History.".
• catalog coverage "Eurasia History.".
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 years, from the fifth century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D., the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a "zone of turbulence," threatening settled peoples from China to Russia and Hungary, including Iran, India, the Byzantine Empire, and even Syria. It was a true world stage that was affected by these destructive nomads."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction. The impact of the nomads ; Nomads and settled peoples ; The nomadic model: the Scythians -- 2. The military fronts of the Altaic nomads (fourth century B.C.-twelfth century A.D.). The Chinese front ; The Indo-Iranian front ; The Byzantine front ; The Russian front ; The exception of western Europe -- 3. The apogee of the nomads: Mongols and Turkic-speakers (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries). The Mongols ; The Turkic-speakers ; The eyewitnesses -- 4. The revenge of the sedentary peoples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Russia after the Mongols ; China after the Mongols ; Epilogue -- Appendices. Periodization of nomad waves ; Nomad empires of high Asia ; Sites of waves of invasions.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-129) and index.".
• catalog extent "xii, 135 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "076580204X (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
• catalog spatial "Asia, Central History.".
• catalog spatial "Asia, Central".
• catalog spatial "Eurasia History.".
• catalog subject "958/.01 21".
• catalog subject "DS329.4 .C4813 2004".
• catalog subject "Nomads Asia, Central History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction. The impact of the nomads ; Nomads and settled peoples ; The nomadic model: the Scythians -- 2. The military fronts of the Altaic nomads (fourth century B.C.-twelfth century A.D.). The Chinese front ; The Indo-Iranian front ; The Byzantine front ; The Russian front ; The exception of western Europe -- 3. The apogee of the nomads: Mongols and Turkic-speakers (thirteenth-fifteenth centuries). The Mongols ; The Turkic-speakers ; The eyewitnesses -- 4. The revenge of the sedentary peoples (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries). Russia after the Mongols ; China after the Mongols ; Epilogue -- Appendices. Periodization of nomad waves ; Nomad empires of high Asia ; Sites of waves of invasions.".
• catalog title "Empires nomades de la Mongolie au Danube. English".
• catalog title "Nomadic empires : from Mongolia to the Danube / Gerard Chaliand ; translated from the French by A.M. Berrett.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".