Christoph Baumer: The History of Central Asia

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Beschreibung

The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interlinking trade routes, collectively known as the Silk Road, led to an explosion of cultural and commercial transactions across Central Asia that had a profound impact on civilization. In this second volume of his authoritative history of the region, Christoph Baumer explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas along the dusty tracks and wandering caravan routes that brought European and Mediterranean orbits into contact with Asia. The Silk Roads, the author shows, enabled the spread across the known world of Christianity, Manichaeism, Buddhism and Islam, just as earlier they had caused Roman citizens to crave the exotic silk goods of the mysterious Far East. Tracing the rise and fall of empires, this richly illustrated book charts the ebb and flow of epic history: the bitter rivalry of Rome and Parthia; the lucrative mercantile empire of the Sogdians; the founding of Samarkand; and Chinese defeat at the Battle of Talas (751 AD) by the forces of Islam.

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Christoph Baumer

Zusammenfassung

In this second volume of his authoritative history of the region, Christoph Baumer explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas along the dusty tracks and wandering caravan routes that brought European and Mediterranean orbits into contact with Asia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Early Empires and Kingdoms in East Central Asia
2. Early Buddhism in Central Asia and the Gandhara School
3. The Migration of Hunnic Peoples to Northern China, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
4. The Kingdoms of the Tarim Basin and their Schools of Buddhist Art
5. The First Turkic Khaganate
6. Turkic Kingdoms of Eastern Europe
7. The Sogdians
[...] Second Turkic Khaganate and the Turgesh
9. China, Tibet and the Arabs: The Struggle for Supremacy in Central Asia
10. The Uyghurs
11. Outlook

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
List of Maps
Photo Credits
Acknowledgements

Index
Concepts
People
Places

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781780768328
ISBN-10:	178076832X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Baumer, Christoph
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	297 x 243 x 38 mm
Von/Mit:	Christoph Baumer
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.11.2014
Gewicht:	2,477 kg