Mohlo by se vám také líbit

Více informací o knize After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam

• Parametry knihy
• Anotace
• Oblíbené z jiného soudku

Nákupem získáte 461 bodů

Anotace knihy

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

Parametry knihy

Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History Regional & national history

• Plný název: After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
• Autor: Georgina Hermann, Joe Cribb
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 532
• EAN: 9780197263846
• ID: 04520710
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press
• Hmotnost: 1192 g
• Rozměry: 252 × 197 × 34 mm
• Datum vydání: 26. July 2007

Oblíbené z jiného soudku

---

---

---