The Cambridge History of Inner Asia

This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Europe. Beginning in the twelfth century, the volume moves through to the establishment of Chinese and Russian political hegemony in Inner Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Contributors use recent research and new approaches that have revitalized Inner Asian studies to highlight the world-historical importance of the regimes and states formed during and after the Mongol conquest. Their conclusions testify to the importance of a region whose modern fate has been overshadowed by Russia and China.

这一册集中书写了成吉思汗与他的儿子们建立的蒙古帝国的历史与遗产，及其对现代世界的影响。本书出自于一个国际化的研究团队，他们探究了蒙古帝国的政治文化史，以及其继承者所建立的国家，还有之后其他被其统治的内亚（Inner Asia）王朝。本书在地缘上集中于从东亚到东欧的广大地区，贯穿从十二世纪开始，到中国与俄国掌控内亚地区的十六世纪至十九世纪的历史。作者吸收运用了最新的研究成果以及研究方法，使得内亚研究焕发出新的活力，强调突出了蒙古人执掌的帝国及其之后国家对世界历史的巨大影响，也揭示了该地区隐藏于俄罗斯与中国身影之下的重大意义。