BY STEPPE, DESERT, AND OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF EURASIA
Written by Barry Cunliffe
Published by Oxford University Press
in 2015
ISBN: 9780199689170
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- ASIA
- ARCHAEOLOGY
BY STEPPE, DESERT, AND OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF EURASIA
Written by Barry Cunliffe.
Stock no. 1830240
Circa.
2015.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
How humankind first started building the globalized world we know today. A tale of war, invasion, migration and the rise and fall of empires, covering a vast historical canvas from China to the Atlantic world. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ix and 530 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199689170. Fourth impression. Text block faintly grubby else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a tiny nick to top rear panel edge.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 The Land and the People
- 2 The Domestication of Eurasia: 10,000-5,000BC
- 3 Horses and Copper: The Centrality of the Steppe, 5000-2500BC
- 4 The Opening of the Eurasian Steppe, 2500-1600BC
- 5 Nomads and Empires: The First Confrontations, 1600-600BC
- 6 Learning from Each Other:
- Interaction along the interface, 600-250BC
- 7 The Continental Connected, 250BC-AD250
- 8 The Age of Perpetual War, AD250-650
- 9 The Beginning of a New World Order, AD650-840
- 10 The Disentegration of Empires, AD840-1150
- 11 The Steppe Triumphant, AD1150-1300
- 12 Looking Back, Looking Forwards
- A Guide to Further Reading
- Illustration Sources
- Index