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Bezig met laden... The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Agedoor Nicola Di Cosmo (Redacteur), Allen J. Frank (Redacteur), Peter B. Golden (Redacteur)
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 1   AndreasJ | Oct 29, 2020 |   There are 410 pages of text here, that cover 1200-1886. As I say, I'm spoilt by my China volumes -- which are only getting bigger lately (I have the new Sung. Part 1. 907-1279 and swallows two of The Chinggisid Age). My stars are interim, as I haven't read the later parts. They may be of more value to me exactly because I am less acquainted. (  ) Jakujin | Dec 23, 2013 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe. Beginning in the twelfth century, the volume moves through to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Contributors use recent research and new approaches that have revitalized Inner Asian studies to highlight the world-historical importance of the regimes and states formed during and after the Mongol conquest. Their conclusions testify to the importance of a region whose modern fate has been overshadowed by Russia and China. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Well, there are some gaps; most notably, the Yuan dynasty is only treated peripherally, presumably because it got the better part of a volume to itself in the Cambridge History of China*. For less obvious reasons, there's no chapter or section focusing on the Jungar**, whose created what was arguably the last great steppe empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before coming up second best against the Qing. They play major roles in several chapters, but always as enemies of the group or state in focus.
The early chapters about the rise of the Mongol Empire and the early stages of its disintegration didn't interest me too much; while competent, they tell stories I've read in more detailed versions elsewhere. More interesting were the middle and later chapters detailing the evolutions of steppe polities in the late middle and early modern ages, as well as their gradual incorporation in the Russian and Qing empires.
* In another form of overlap, di Cosmo's chapter here on the Qing conquests in the steppes, the Tarim basin, and Tibet is very similar to his chapter on the same in the Cambridge History of China volume on the early Qing dynasty.
** AKA Junghar, Dzungar, Zungar, and other variants. They're sometimes also known as Kalmyks, Qalmaqs, or Qalmïqs.