Amitai Reuven, Biran Michal (eds.) Mongols, Turks, and others. Eurasian Nomads and the Sedentary World

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005. — 572 p. — (Brill’s Inner Asian Library 11). — ISBN 90-04-14096-4.The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as religion, technology, and political culture. The essays in this volume use a broad comparative approach that highlights the multifarious nature of nomadic society and its changing relations with the sedentary world in the vicinity of China, Russia and the Middle East, from antiquity into the contemporary world.List of MapsList of Abbreviations
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List of ContributorsEarly Contacts
Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100–600 BCE
Gideon Shelach Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the Sino-Barbarian Dichotomy. Yuri Pines
Early Eurasian Nomads and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Eighth-Seventh Centuries BCE). Askold I. IvantchikThe Pre-Mongol Period
What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947. Naomi Standen
True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam. Michal Biran
The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing. Yehoshua FrenkelThe Mongol Empire and Its Successors
The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered. Peter Jackson
The Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan Revisited. David Morgan
A Reappraisal of Güyüg Khan. Hodong Kim
War and Peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312–1323). Liu Yingsheng
The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War. Reuven Amitai
Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Convergences and Conflicts. Nicola Di Cosmo
Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military. Beatrice Forbes ManzInto the Modern Period
The Mongols and China: Cultural Contacts and the Changing Nature of Pastoral Nomadism (Twelfth to Early Twentieth Centuries). Elizabeth Endicottcontents
Russia and the Eurasian Steppe Nomads: An Overview. Moshe Gammer
Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia. Anatoly M. Khazanov and Kenneth H. Shapiro