Christopher I. Beckwith

Empires of the Silk Road

A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A history of Central Eurasia since ancient times. It presents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. It describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and the Mongols.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 141mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780691150345
• ISBN-10: 0691150346
• Artikelnr.: 32691091

Autorenporträt

Christopher I. Beckwith is professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University. His other books include The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Princeton).

Rezensionen

"Christopher I. Beckwith, professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University, suggests in his recent book, Empires of the Silk Road (Princeton University Press), that 'the most crucial element' of societies all through Central Eurasia--including the ones analyzed by this exhibition--was the 'sociopolitical-religious ideal of the heroic lord' and of a 'war band of his friends' that was attached to him and 'sworn to defend him to the death.' This idea, he suggests, affected the organization of early Islam as well as the structure of Tibetan Buddhist devotion. In fact, this 'shared political ideology across Eurasia,' Mr. Beckwith suggests, 'ensured nearly constant warfare.' The region's history is a history of competing empires; trade became part of what was later called the Great Game."---Edward Rothstein, New York Times