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Author | : Robert Haug |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178831722X |
Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the 'eastern frontier' in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasi-independent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions.
Author | : Diane Shaw |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004-10-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780801879258 |
At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning."--Jacket.
Author | : Timothy Bruce Mitford |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0192843427 |
The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown -- until now. Here, Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges, signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.
Author | : Michael H. Dodgeon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134961146 |
Collects and translates such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene, to give us a picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history.
Author | : Charles E. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : |
Traces the early cultural and social development of the rough, lawless wilderness settlements of Maine and New Hampshire.
Author | : Geoffrey Greatrex |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415465304 |
Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, with the Romans and Persians engaged in almost constant conflict. This book provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides.
Author | : Robert Boileau Pemberton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Alexander Mackenzie |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scott Weidensaul |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Modern dance |
ISBN | : 0151015155 |
Author | : Ronald 'Ron' Baldwin |
Publisher | : Ronald Baldwin |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1449507387 |
Starting out as a narrative of the Clinton - Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in central New York state this book quickly became a story of the contributions women made to the settling of the upper Susquehanna valley. Their daily efforts to maintain a household in times of multiple dangers (wildlife, disease, hostile Indians, lack of medical help, accidents, food shortages and the weather). This tale weaves their stories into a narrative that includes the actual history of the area. Be entertained, and educated as you follow this exciting story of true life on the frontier as it was in the 1770's on the upper Susquehanna.