Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: the concept of Inner Asia
- 2 The geographic setting
- 3 Inner Asia at the dawn of history
- 4 The Scythians and Sarmatians
- 5 The Hsiung-nu
- 6 Indo-Europeans in Inner Asia
- 7 The Hun period
- 8 The Avars
- 9 The peoples of the Russian forest belt
- 10 The peoples of the south Russian steppes
- 11 The establishment and dissolution of the Türk empire
- 12 The Uighurs
- 13 The Karakhanids and early Islam
- 14 Early and medieval Tibet
- 15 The forest peoples of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 Introduction: the concept of Inner Asia
- 2 The geographic setting
- 3 Inner Asia at the dawn of history
- 4 The Scythians and Sarmatians
- 5 The Hsiung-nu
- 6 Indo-Europeans in Inner Asia
- 7 The Hun period
- 8 The Avars
- 9 The peoples of the Russian forest belt
- 10 The peoples of the south Russian steppes
- 11 The establishment and dissolution of the Türk empire
- 12 The Uighurs
- 13 The Karakhanids and early Islam
- 14 Early and medieval Tibet
- 15 The forest peoples of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia , pp. i - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990