The Empire of the Steppes

Autorentext
René Grousset was director of the Cernuschi Museum and curator of the Musé Guimet in Paris, a member of the French Academy and author of many works on Asia Minor and the Near East.

Klappentext
For a thousand years Europe, Asia Minor and China were periodically terrorized by the barbarian warriors who appeared from the bleak steppes of Asia. These nomadic conquerors were variously called Huns, Mongols and sometimes Turks and they were led by men whose names still strike a not of awe: Attila, Jenghiz Khan, Tamerlane. Professor Grousset describes the origins and accomplishments of these men and their peoples, their rise and decline as builders of empire, their ways of life, and the forces which they controlled and to which they themselves ultimately fell victim. His approach is chronological, and his coverage is comprehensive and synthetic. The rather textbookish format of the book is countered by Naomi Walford's sprightly translation, and the overall impression is one of high readability. The book is in every way superior to the author's Epic of the Crusades (1969, p. 1237); indeed it qualifies as a major achievement of this eminent Orientalist. (Kirkus Reviews)

Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
List of Maps
Itroduction: The Steppe and History

I. THE HIGH PLATEAUS OF ASIA UNTIL, THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
1. Early History of the Steppes: Scythians and Huns
2. The Early Middle Ages: T'u-chueh Empire
3. The Turks and Islam to the Thirteenth Century
4. The Russian Steppe from the Sixth to the Thirteenth

II. THE JENGHIZ-KHANITE MONGOLS
5. Jenghiz Khan
6. The Three Immediate Successors to Jenghiz Khan
7. Kublai and the Mongol Dynasty of China
8. Turkestan Under the House of Jagatai
9. Mongol Persia and the House of Hulagu
10. The Khanate of Kipchak
11.Tamerlane

III. THE LAST MONGOLS
12. The Mongols of Russia
13. The Shaybanids
14. The Last Jagataites
15. The Last Empires of Mongolia from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Notes
Index

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