Title:	Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire
Authors:	Honeychurch, William
Keywords:	Spatial Politics
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book explores the lesser known side of the Inner Asian frontier, a world of nomadic societies representing a different kind of civilization that arose from lifeways of herding and movement across the landscape. These mobile peoples built expansive polities that challenged, conquered, and ruled many of the great civilizations of the Old World. Although histories recount these exploits as the workings of great leaders who were as ruthless as they were charismatic, in fact, steppe history is not just a narrative of kings, emperors, and aristocratic elite. It is a narrative that cannot be told without the common herders, farmers, hunters, and crafts people who made up the diverse communities of the Eurasian steppe. From these grasslands comes a mystery that continues to perplex historians and anthropologists to this day. How did these people—who lived primarily as nomads, moving their animals with the seasons, and living in tents
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/15653
ISBN:	978-1-4939-1815-7
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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