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Xiongnu The World's First Nomadic Empire

Miller, Bryan K.
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190083694
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
703 gr
Høyde
168 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Miller, Bryan K.

Biografisk notat

Bryan K. Miller is Assistant Professor of Central Asian Art & Archaeology in History of Art and Assistant Curator of Chinese Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan.

Xiongnu The World's First Nomadic Empire

Miller, Bryan K.
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Miller, Bryan K.
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Bryan Miller offers an intriguing and much needed treatment of eastern Eurasian history and archaeology that brings to light the latest excavation results from Mongolia, Siberia, and northern China, and articulates these discoveries expertly with the ancient historical texts on the Xiongnu nomadic state. With engaging insight and new interpretations, Miller reveals the power of Mongolian archaeology to transform our conventional understandings of nomadic peoples and their pivotal role in the making of East Asia.

William Honeychurch, Yale University

Miller brilliantly interweaves Chinese primary sources and Mongolian, Russian, and Chinese archaeological research to liberate Xiongnu history from dualistic relations with Han Dynasty China. In Miller's re-envisioning, Xiongnu authority extended over diverse regional pastoral and agricultural societies across Eurasian steppe and desert, and the Xiongnu and Han were only two players in a multilateral 'Great Game' that encouraged far-flung political, economic, and cultural conflicts and exchanges well into the first century CE. The most pathbreaking book on Xiongnu history since Nicola Di Cosmo's Ancient China and Its Enemies.

Jonathan Karam Skaff, Shippensburg University

Comprehensive and wide-reaching, Xiongnu explores the rise of the empire, details how the empire controlled nodes of wealth and far-flung power bases, and charts the slow and fractured decline of the Xiongnu empire. Throughout, Miller provides fascinating readings of burial goods, vibrant tellings of oath ceremonies, and careful interpretations of Chinese letters and histories. Xiongnu firmly brings its nomad protagonists onto center stage and into sharp focus, and this book is bound to appeal to those interested in archaeology, nomadic societies, and world history.

New Books Network

This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise, traversing the wars that challenged it and the reformations that made it stronger, to the legacy left after its eventual fall. Xiongnu expounds the economic practices and social conventions of steppe herders as fertile foundations for institutions and infrastructure of empire, and renders a model of “empires of mobilities,” which engaged the control less of towns and territories and more of the movements of communities and capital to fuel their regimes. By weaving together archaeological examinations with historical investigations, Bryan K. Miller presents a more complex and nuanced narrative of how an empire based firmly in the steppe over two thousand years ago managed to formulate a robust political economy and a complex political matrix that capitalized on mobilities and alternative forms of political participation, and allowed the Xiongnu to dominate vast realms of central Eurasia and leave lasting geopolitical effects on the many worlds around them.
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This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, Bryan K. Miller traces the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise to after its eventual fall.
Les mer
Prologue 1. Nomad Protagonists 2. Kingdoms of Those Who Draw the Bow 3. Masters of the Steppe 4. Rule by the Horse 5. Of Wolves and Sheep 6. Masters of the Continental Worlds 7. Hunnic Heritage Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendix Index
Les mer
"Bryan Miller offers an intriguing and much needed treatment of eastern Eurasian history and archaeology that brings to light the latest excavation results from Mongolia, Siberia, and northern China, and articulates these discoveries expertly with the ancient historical texts on the Xiongnu nomadic state. With engaging insight and new interpretations, Miller reveals the power of Mongolian archaeology to transform our conventional understandings of nomadic peoples and their pivotal role in the making of East Asia." -- William Honeychurch, Yale University "Miller brilliantly interweaves Chinese primary sources and Mongolian, Russian, and Chinese archaeological research to liberate Xiongnu history from dualistic relations with Han Dynasty China. In Miller's re-envisioning, Xiongnu authority extended over diverse regional pastoral and agricultural societies across Eurasian steppe and desert, and the Xiongnu and Han were only two players in a multilateral 'Great Game' that encouraged far-flung political, economic, and cultural conflicts and exchanges well into the first century CE. The most pathbreaking book on Xiongnu history since Nicola Di Cosmo's Ancient China and Its Enemies." -- Jonathan Karam Skaff, Shippensburg University "Comprehensive and wide-reaching, Xiongnu explores the rise of the empire, details how the empire controlled nodes of wealth and far-flung power bases, and charts the slow and fractured decline of the Xiongnu empire. Throughout, Miller provides fascinating readings of burial goods, vibrant tellings of oath ceremonies, and careful interpretations of Chinese letters and histories. Xiongnu firmly brings its nomad protagonists onto center stage and into sharp focus, and this book is bound to appeal to those interested in archaeology, nomadic societies, and world history." -- New Books Network
Les mer
Bryan K. Miller is Assistant Professor of Central Asian Art & Archaeology in History of Art and Assistant Curator of Chinese Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan.
Les mer
Selling point: Includes original translations of Chinese texts-histories, records, letters and odes-many of which have never been translated into English Selling point: Presents original archaeological fieldwork in Mongolia, detailed regional case studies of archaeological sites, and an unprecedented synthesis of the complete corpus of archaeological data from China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan that relate to this era Selling point: Provides the reader with a well-rounded and robust narrative of an ancient empire that has been side-lined in world history
Les mer

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Bryan Miller offers an intriguing and much needed treatment of eastern Eurasian history and archaeology that brings to light the latest excavation results from Mongolia, Siberia, and northern China, and articulates these discoveries expertly with the ancient historical texts on the Xiongnu nomadic state. With engaging insight and new interpretations, Miller reveals the power of Mongolian archaeology to transform our conventional understandings of nomadic peoples and their pivotal role in the making of East Asia.

William Honeychurch, Yale University

Miller brilliantly interweaves Chinese primary sources and Mongolian, Russian, and Chinese archaeological research to liberate Xiongnu history from dualistic relations with Han Dynasty China. In Miller's re-envisioning, Xiongnu authority extended over diverse regional pastoral and agricultural societies across Eurasian steppe and desert, and the Xiongnu and Han were only two players in a multilateral 'Great Game' that encouraged far-flung political, economic, and cultural conflicts and exchanges well into the first century CE. The most pathbreaking book on Xiongnu history since Nicola Di Cosmo's Ancient China and Its Enemies.

Jonathan Karam Skaff, Shippensburg University

Comprehensive and wide-reaching, Xiongnu explores the rise of the empire, details how the empire controlled nodes of wealth and far-flung power bases, and charts the slow and fractured decline of the Xiongnu empire. Throughout, Miller provides fascinating readings of burial goods, vibrant tellings of oath ceremonies, and careful interpretations of Chinese letters and histories. Xiongnu firmly brings its nomad protagonists onto center stage and into sharp focus, and this book is bound to appeal to those interested in archaeology, nomadic societies, and world history.

New Books Network

This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise, traversing the wars that challenged it and the reformations that made it stronger, to the legacy left after its eventual fall. Xiongnu expounds the economic practices and social conventions of steppe herders as fertile foundations for institutions and infrastructure of empire, and renders a model of “empires of mobilities,” which engaged the control less of towns and territories and more of the movements of communities and capital to fuel their regimes. By weaving together archaeological examinations with historical investigations, Bryan K. Miller presents a more complex and nuanced narrative of how an empire based firmly in the steppe over two thousand years ago managed to formulate a robust political economy and a complex political matrix that capitalized on mobilities and alternative forms of political participation, and allowed the Xiongnu to dominate vast realms of central Eurasia and leave lasting geopolitical effects on the many worlds around them.
Les mer
This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, Bryan K. Miller traces the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise to after its eventual fall.
Les mer
Prologue 1. Nomad Protagonists 2. Kingdoms of Those Who Draw the Bow 3. Masters of the Steppe 4. Rule by the Horse 5. Of Wolves and Sheep 6. Masters of the Continental Worlds 7. Hunnic Heritage Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendix Index
Les mer
"Bryan Miller offers an intriguing and much needed treatment of eastern Eurasian history and archaeology that brings to light the latest excavation results from Mongolia, Siberia, and northern China, and articulates these discoveries expertly with the ancient historical texts on the Xiongnu nomadic state. With engaging insight and new interpretations, Miller reveals the power of Mongolian archaeology to transform our conventional understandings of nomadic peoples and their pivotal role in the making of East Asia." -- William Honeychurch, Yale University "Miller brilliantly interweaves Chinese primary sources and Mongolian, Russian, and Chinese archaeological research to liberate Xiongnu history from dualistic relations with Han Dynasty China. In Miller's re-envisioning, Xiongnu authority extended over diverse regional pastoral and agricultural societies across Eurasian steppe and desert, and the Xiongnu and Han were only two players in a multilateral 'Great Game' that encouraged far-flung political, economic, and cultural conflicts and exchanges well into the first century CE. The most pathbreaking book on Xiongnu history since Nicola Di Cosmo's Ancient China and Its Enemies." -- Jonathan Karam Skaff, Shippensburg University "Comprehensive and wide-reaching, Xiongnu explores the rise of the empire, details how the empire controlled nodes of wealth and far-flung power bases, and charts the slow and fractured decline of the Xiongnu empire. Throughout, Miller provides fascinating readings of burial goods, vibrant tellings of oath ceremonies, and careful interpretations of Chinese letters and histories. Xiongnu firmly brings its nomad protagonists onto center stage and into sharp focus, and this book is bound to appeal to those interested in archaeology, nomadic societies, and world history." -- New Books Network
Les mer
Bryan K. Miller is Assistant Professor of Central Asian Art & Archaeology in History of Art and Assistant Curator of Chinese Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan.
Les mer
Selling point: Includes original translations of Chinese texts-histories, records, letters and odes-many of which have never been translated into English Selling point: Presents original archaeological fieldwork in Mongolia, detailed regional case studies of archaeological sites, and an unprecedented synthesis of the complete corpus of archaeological data from China, Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan that relate to this era Selling point: Provides the reader with a well-rounded and robust narrative of an ancient empire that has been side-lined in world history
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780190083694
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
703 gr
Høyde
168 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter
Miller, Bryan K.

Biografisk notat

Bryan K. Miller is Assistant Professor of Central Asian Art & Archaeology in History of Art and Assistant Curator of Chinese Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan.

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