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AFTER ALEXANDER: CENTRAL ASIA BEFORE ISLAM
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| By: |
Joe Cribb (Editor), Georgina Herrmann (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£110.00 |
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£96.25 |
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£13.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0197263844 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780197263846 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 July, 2007 |
| Series: |
Proceedings of the British Academy 133 |
| Pages: |
532 |
| Description: |
This new study of the history and archaeology of Central Asia is crucial for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. The period from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the arrival of Islam was one of change and conflict between settled peoples and new arrivals, city-dwellers and nomads. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a new study of the history, archaeology and numismatics of Central Asia, an area of great significance for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. This vast, land-locked region, with its extreme continental climate, was a centre of civilization with great metropolises. Its cosmopolitan population followed different religions (Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Buddhism), and traded extensively with China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. The millennium from the overthrow of the first world empire of Achaemenian Persians by Alexander the Great to the arrival of the Arabs and Islam was a period of considerable change and conflict. The volume focuses on recent investigations in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It provides a complex analysis of the symbiosis between the city life based on oases, and the nomadic peoples grazing their animals in the surrounding semi-deserts. Other topics include the influence of the Greek colonists on military architecture, and the major impact of the Great Kushans on the spread of Buddhism and on the development of the Central Asian metropolis.And although written documents rarely survive, coinage has provided essential evidence for the political and cultural history of the region. These essays will be of interest to the scholar, the student, and the armchair traveller |
| Illustrations: |
7 colour plates, numerous halftones and line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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