Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

Acknowledgments
Notes on Dates and Transliterations
1 Introduction: Nomadic Culture (Michal Biran) . . . 1
2 Steppe Land Interactions and Their Effects on Chinese Cultures during the Second and Early First Millennia BCE (Gideon Shelach-Lavi). . . 10
3 The Scythians and Their Neighbors (Anatoly M.Khazanov) . . . 32
4 From Steppe Roads to Silk Roads: Inner Asian Nomads and Early Interregional Exchange (William Honeychurch) . . . 50
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Acknowledgments
Notes on Dates and Transliterations
1 Introduction: Nomadic Culture (Michal Biran) . . . 1
2 Steppe Land Interactions and Their Effects on Chinese Cultures during the Second and Early First Millennia BCE (Gideon Shelach-Lavi). . . 10
3 The Scythians and Their Neighbors (Anatoly M.Khazanov) . . . 32
4 From Steppe Roads to Silk Roads: Inner Asian Nomads and Early Interregional Exchange (William Honeychurch) . . . 50
5 The Use of Sociopolitical Terminology for Nomads: An Excursion into the Term Buluo in Tang China (Isenbike Togan) . . . 88
6 Population Movements in Mongol Eurasia (Thomas T. Allsen) . . . 119
7 The Mongols and Nomadic Identity: the Case of the Kitans in China (Michal Biran) . . . 152
8 Persian Notables and the Families Who Underpinned the Ilkhanate (George Lane) . . . 182
9 The Mongol Empire and Its Impact on the Arts of China (Morris Rossabi) . . . 214
10 The Impact of the Mongols on the History of Syria: Politics, Society, and Culture (Reuven Amitai) . . . 228
11 The Tatar Factor in the Formation of Muscovy's Political Culture (Istvan Vasary) . . . 252
12 Mongol Historiography since 1985: the Rise of Cultural History (David Morgan) . . . 271
Bibliography . . . 283
Contributors . . . 331
Index . . . 335
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