Nomads in the Sedentary World

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Routledge, Oct 12, 2012 - Social Science - 308 pages
Studies the role played by nomads in the political, linguistic, socio-economic and cultural development of the sedentary world around them. Spans regions from Hungary to Africa, India and China, and periods from the first millennium BC to early modern times.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Nomads in the History of the Sedentary World
1
The Case of PreChinggisid Rus and Georgia
24
The Translatio Imperii from Ītil to Kiev
76
Chapter 4 Cuman Integration in Hungary
103
Chapter 5 The Influence of Pastoral Nomad Populations on the Economy and Society of PostSafavid Iran
128
Chapter 6 TurkoMongolian Nomads and the Iqtā System in the Islamic Middle East ca 10001400 AD
152
Apportioned Lands under the Mongols
172
Chapter 8 Nomads in the Tangut State of HsiHsia 9821227 AD
191
Chapter 9 India and the TurkoMongol Frontier
211
Nomads as a Force in International Trade and Politics
234
Dominance or Marginality
250
12 Conclusion
285
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ANATOLY M. KHAZANO, FBA, is Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ANDRÉ WINK is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

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