A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced over millennia. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.
Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.
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这一本可以说很好地体现了world history approach的优势和劣势。一本难得一见的1500年之后的历史没有占半本的书。
评分一百四十页的小史只能packed with names,读了两章就开始记笔记不然读着就丢了;两门CEUS的课都上成了区域研究的概览,估计三次quiz就干掉了一波没有任何语言准备的学生,做中亚史的老师历史训练都是自己acquired? 快期末了也不知道纪行文学怎么当文学文本来读(本身就是个假命题?),还是找篇老师的论文看好了。
评分一百四十页的小史只能packed with names,读了两章就开始记笔记不然读着就丢了;两门CEUS的课都上成了区域研究的概览,估计三次quiz就干掉了一波没有任何语言准备的学生,做中亚史的老师历史训练都是自己acquired? 快期末了也不知道纪行文学怎么当文学文本来读(本身就是个假命题?),还是找篇老师的论文看好了。
评分2011年夏季回臺時在飛機上讀的。
评分为我解惑。读懂了中亚历史,就可以把东西方历史有机的联系起来。中亚在历史上真是个宗教大杂烩,中亚的宗教变迁帮助我更好的理解了主要宗教的历史作用。
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