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Author : Nicholas Evans
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Mountains, Steppes and Empires by : Nicholas Evans
Download or read book Mountains, Steppes and Empires written by Nicholas Evans. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Bello
Release : 2016-02-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain by : David A. Bello
Download or read book Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain written by David A. Bello. This book was released on 2016-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Manchu and Chinese sources, this book explores the environmental history of Qing China's Manchurian, Inner Mongolian, and Yunnan borderlands.
Author : Barry Cunliffe
Release : 2019-09-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Scythians by : Barry Cunliffe
Download or read book The Scythians written by Barry Cunliffe. This book was released on 2019-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.
Author : F. R. Grahame
Release : 2015-06-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Archer and the Steppe, or the Empires of Scythia by : F. R. Grahame
Download or read book The Archer and the Steppe, or the Empires of Scythia written by F. R. Grahame. This book was released on 2015-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Archer and the Steppe, or the Empires of Scythia: A History of Russia and Tartary, From the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Mongul Power in Europe, in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century First then from hence Turn to the orient sun, and pass the height Of these uncultured mountains; thence descend To where the wandering Scythians, train'd to beat The distant wounding bow, on wheels aloft Roll on their wattled cottages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : René Grousset
Release : 1970
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Empire of the Steppes by : René Grousset
Download or read book The Empire of the Steppes written by René Grousset. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .While the early history of the steppe nomad is shrouded in obscurity, The Empire of the Steppes brings both the general reader and the specialist the majestic sweep, grandeur and the overriding intellectual grasp of Grousset's original. Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in French in 1939, and in English in 1970, this great work of synthesis brings before us the people of the steppes, dominated by three mighty figures--Atilla, Genghiz Khan, and Tamberlain--as they marched through ten centuries of history, from the borders of China to the frontiers of the West. The book includes nineteen maps, a comprehensive index, notes, and bibliography. The late Rene Grousset was director of the Cernuschi Museum and curator of the Muse Guimet in Paris, a member of the French Academy and author of many works on Asia Minor and the Near East.
