Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

Informationen zum Autor Thomas T. Allsen is Professor in the Department of History, The College of New Jersey, Ewing. His publications include Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (1997). Zusammenfassung Thomas Allsen's latest book breaks new scholarly boundaries in its exploration of cultural and scientific exchanges across Mongol Eurasia. Contrary to popular belief! Mongol rulers were intensely interested in the culture of their sedentary subjects and! under their auspices! commodities! ideologies and technologies were disseminated from East to West. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. Before the Mongols; Part II. Political-Economic Relations: 3. Formation of the Il-qans, 1251-65; 4. Grand Qans and Il-qans, 1265-95; 5. Continuity and change under Ghazan, 1295-1304; 6. Sultans and Grand Qans, 1304-35; 7. Economic ties; 8. Overview of the relationship; Part III. Intermediaries: 9. Marco Polo and Po-lo; 10. Qubilai and Bolad Aqa; 11. Rashid al-Din and Pulad chinksank; Part IV. Cultural Exchange: 12. Historiography; 13. Geography and cartography; 14. Agriculture; 15. Cuisine; 16. Medicine; 17. Astronomy; 18. Printing; Part V. Analysis and Conclusions: 19. Models and methods; 20. Agency; 21. Filtering; 22. Summation.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas T. Allsen, Thomas T. (The College of New Jersey Allsen
• Assisted by: David Morgan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2001
• EAN: 9780521803359
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80335-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous