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Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0691135894 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780691135892 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author	Beckwith, Christopher I. 1945-
Title	Empires of the Silk Road : a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present / [by] Christopher I. Beckwith
Publisher	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009
Physical desc.	xxv, 472 p. ; maps ; 25 cm.
Note	Maps on endpapers and lining papers.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-455) and index
Contents	Prologue: The hero and his friends -- The chariot warriors -- The royal Scythians -- Between Roman and Chinese legions -- The age of Attila the Hun -- The Türk empire -- The Silk Road, revolution, and collapse -- The Vikings and Cathay -- Chinggis Khan and the Mongol conquests -- Central Eurasians ride to a European sea -- The road is closed -- Eurasia without a center -- Central Eurasia reborn -- Epilogue: The Barbarians -- Appendix A: The Proto-Indo-Europeans and their diaspora -- Appendix B: Ancient Central Eurasian ethnonyms.
Subject	Asia, Central -- History
	Europe, Eastern -- History
	East Asia -- History
	Middle East -- History
	Silk Road -- History

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