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Central Asia in World History (Hardcover, New)
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Central Asia in World History (Hardcover, New)
Series: New Oxford World History
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A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria
and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called
the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road
traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders,
including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central
Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account
of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present,
focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this
region has produced over millennia. Golden describes the traders
who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia
and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan and his successors,
the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of
gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome
the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China,
and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he
discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such
geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.
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