Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800) / Nicola Di Cosmo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Cosmo Di, Nicola,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

Military developments in Inner Asia lay at the basis of the rise of a number of Ancient and Early Modern Empires. This is the first scholarly work to embrace Inner Asian military history across a broad spatial and chronological spectrum, from the Turks and Uighurs to the Pechenegs, and from the Mongol invasion of Syria to the Manchu conquest of China. Based on previously unknown and until now underestimated sources, the contributors to this volume explore the context, development, and characteristic features of Inner Asian warfare, making original contributions to our understanding of Asian and world history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Nicola di Cosmo -- Inner Asian Ways of Warfare in Historical Perspective / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Strategy and Contingency in the Tang Defeat of the Eastern Turks, 629-630 / David A. Graff -- The Uighur-Chinese Conflict of 840-848 / Michael R. Drompp -- War and Warfare in the Pre-Činggisid Western Steppes of Eurasia / Peter B. Golden -- The Battle of Herat (1240): A Case of Inter-Mongol Warfare / Michal Biran -- Whither the Ilkhanid Army? Ghazan’s First Campaign into Syria (1299–1300) / Reuven Amitai -- The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire / Thomas T. Allsen -- The Mongol Conquest of Dali: The Failed Second Front / John E. Herman -- Military Aspects of the Manchu Wars against the Čaqars / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Fate and Fortune in Central Eurasian Warfare: Three Qing Emperors and their Mongol Rivals / Peter C. Perdue -- Military Ritual and the Qing Empire / Joanna Waley-Cohen -- General Index / Nicola di Cosmo.