Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and "barbarians." This unique volume explores their drastically different responses: China "chose" containment while Europe "chose" expansion. Migration played a crucial role in this interaction. Issuing from two population centers, the sedentary one in the West and the nomadic one in the East, two powerful population streams confronted each other in the Eurasian Steppe. This confrontation was a crucial factor in determining patterns of Eurasian history--it destroyed existing states, created new ones, and drastically changed the balance of power. Even today, while Russian populations in Asia contract, the population pressures in China and Central Asia continue to build and are likely to spill over across the border. This book shows how we are witnessing the beginning of a new cycle of the age-old contest.
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Andrew Bell-Fialkoff is the author of Ethnic Cleansing.
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A topnotch historian examines a very unusual aspect of Eurasian history: the interaction of several types of civilization in the Eurasian Steppe. It is very well written, destined for scholar and layman, and is a wonderful contribution to this complex subject. It is a detailed, expert, and well thought out examination of an often contradictory and hard to untangle history of migrations...
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This book explores the long-term interaction among three socioeconomic formations: societies based on sedentary agriculture, the tribes of the forest zone, and the nomads of the Eurasian steppe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steppe corridor, imperial confederacy, medieval colonization, forest tribes, sedentary neighbors, relative overpopulation, nomadic migrations, high civilization, other nomads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sea, Soviet Union, Golden Horde, World War, European Russia, Roman Empire, Asia Minor, Genghis Khan, Middle Ages, Russian Empire, Mongol Empire, New York, The Role of Migration, Alash Orda, Bronze Age, United States, Eastern Empire, Russian Primary Chronicle, Art of the Steppes, North America, Western Empire, Caspian Sea, Near East, Western Mongols, Ammianus Marcellinus New!
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This book explores the long-term interaction among three socioeconomic formations: societies based on sedentary agriculture, the tribes of the forest zone, and the nomads of the Eurasian steppe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steppe corridor, imperial confederacy, medieval colonization, forest tribes, sedentary neighbors, relative overpopulation, nomadic migrations, high civilization, other nomads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sea, Soviet Union, Golden Horde, World War, European Russia, Roman Empire, Asia Minor, Genghis Khan, Middle Ages, Russian Empire, Mongol Empire, New York, The Role of Migration, Alash Orda, Bronze Age, United States, Eastern Empire, Russian Primary Chronicle, Art of the Steppes, North America, Western Empire, Caspian Sea, Near East, Western Mongols, Ammianus Marcellinus New!
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- Nomads and the Outside World by Anatoly M. Khazanov on 4 pages
- The World of the Scythians by Renate Rolle on 4 pages
- Nomads in Archaeology (New Studies in Archaeology) by Roger Cribb on page 204, page 205, and Back Matter
- Nomads of Eurasia (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.) by Vladimir N. Basilov in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- World History: The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present by Hugh Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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