Christoph Baumer (Independent Scholar)

The History of Central Asia

The Age of the Silk Roads

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 243mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 2106g
• ISBN-13: 9781780768328
• ISBN-10: 178076832X
• Artikelnr.: 40603481

Autorenporträt

Christoph Baumer is a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia. He is President of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia and is a member of the Explorers' Club, New York, and of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London.

Inhaltsangabe

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 8.The 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