Hammer and Anvil (eBook)

Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World

Pamela Kyle Crossley (Autor)

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2019
360 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
9781442214453 (ISBN)

Infos

Weaving new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley boldly argues that nomadic regimes such as the Mongols and Turks profoundly shaped Eurasia’s economic, technological, and political evolution to create our modern world.

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This groundbreaking book examines the role of rulers with nomadic roots in transforming the great societies of Eurasia, especially from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. Distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley, drawing on the long history of nomadic confrontation with Eurasia's densely populated civilizations, argues that the distinctive changes we associate with modernity were founded on vernacular literature and arts, rising literacy, mercantile and financial economies, religious dissidence, independent learning, and self-legitimating rulership. Crossley finds that political traditions of Central Asia insulated rulers from established religious authority and promoted the objectification of cultural identities marked by language and faith, which created a mutual encouragement of cultural and political change. As religious and social hierarchies weakened, political centralization and militarization advanced. But in the spheres of religion and philosophy, iconoclasm enjoyed a new life. The changes cumulatively defined a threshold of the modern world, beyond which lay early nationalism, imperialism, and the novel divisions of Eurasia into "e;East"e; and "e;West."e; Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, Crossley reveals the unique importance of Turkic and Mongol regimes in shaping Eurasia's economic, technological, and political evolution toward our modern world.

Autor

Pamela Kyle Crossley is Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A former Guggenheim and NEH fellow, she was awarded of the AAS Levenson Prize. Her books include The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800, What Is Global History?,A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, and The Manchus.

Inhalt

List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I: The Integrity of Eurasia1 The Lost Continent 2 Light-Mindedness II: Steppe Power in Settled Medieval Eurasia3 The Turkic Tide 4 Belief and Blood 5 Sultans and Civilization III: The Age of Far Conquest6 The Predatory Enterprise 7 The Empires of the Toluids 8 Return of the TurksIV: The Forge9 Dissidence and Doubt 10 Intimations of Nationality 11 Ruling in Place Epilogue Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 19 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Central Asia • Ethnicity • Eurasia • Gnosticism • Heresy • Historiography • Late Medieval • Light-mindedness • Literacy • lost continent • Mamluks • mercantile economies • Mongol • Nationalism • Nomads • origins modern world • Ottomans • Religious dissidence • Russia • Turkic conquests • Turkic tide • vernacular literature
• ISBN-13: 9781442214453 / 9781442214453