Editors' Preface
Introduction: A Layering of Peoples
Chapter 1: The Rise of Nomadism and the Oasis City-States
Chapter 2: The Early Nomads: "Warfare is Their Business"
Chapter 3: Heavenly Qaghans: The Türks and Their Successors
Chapter 4: The Cities of the Silk Road and the Coming of Islam.
Chapter 5: Crescent over the Steppe: Islam and the Turkic
Peoples
Chapter 6: The Mongol Whirlwind
Chapter 7: The Later Chinggisids, Temür and the Timurid
Renaissance
Chapter 8: The Age of Gunpowder and the Crush of Empires
Chapter 9: The Problems of Modernity
Pronunciation Guide
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Acknowledgments
Index
Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.
"Peter Golden's scholarship has long defined the gold standard in
the study of the Turks of Central Asia and has given him a
commanding position in Central Asian studies generally. Students of
Central Asian history and their teachers owe a great debt of
gratitude to Peter Golden for writing this book."--Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the Orient
"Peter Golden's scholarship has long defined the gold standard in
the study of the Turks of Central Asia and has given him a
commanding position in Central Asian studies generally. Students of
Central Asian history and their teachers owe a great debt of
gratitude to Peter Golden for writing this book."--Journal of the
Economic and Social History of the Orient
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