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

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 Mong...

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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.
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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.