Thomas T. Allsen

Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia

Buch

In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The b… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Morgan, David (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-60270-9
EAN: 9780521602709
Produktnummer: 9481952
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 411 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 411

Über den 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).