The History of Central Asia, Volume 3: The Age of Islam and the Mongols, Hardcover - Cristoph Baumer

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all...

The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative develop...

The Age of the Silk Roads (c 200 BC- c 900 AD) shaped the course of the future. The foundation by the Han dynasty of an extensive network of interl...

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Presenting a series of biographical portraits, this book forms a reign-by-reign record of the sultans, shahs, emperors and khans who all shared the...

An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and ...

The great river civilization of the Oxus is one of the forgotten jewels of the ancient world. In history, this grand arterial 1, 500-mile waterway ...

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...

This book examines how violent acts were assessed by Muslim intellectuals, analysing both changes and continuity within Islamic thought over time.

Reducere. The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s Age of Roosevelt ...

The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrate...

DescriptionThe first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe covered the story of this legendary fighting force throughout World War II: this...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the caus...

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking o...

Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both mer...

Reducere. This major study explores the spatial history of the Dutch East Indies as an imperial formation between the early nineteenth century and the end of...

First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age ...

'Difficult to put down ... irresistible' Daily Telegraph

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Eivind Heldaas SelandIllustration(s): 25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Reducere. Saga about ancient Egypt & the powerful struggle between Ramses & his enemies.

At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majo...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country's past and present instabi...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

DescriptionThe latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy i...

Reducere. Norwegian immigrants founded a settlement southwest of Cambridge, Iowa, in June 1855 and a second colony east of Story City in June 1856. Fifty yea...

Reducere. A reporter's vivid account of Central Asia's wild recent history--violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds ...