Nicola Di Cosmo
Autor(a) de Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History
About the Author
Nicola Di Cosmo is Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study.
Obras de Nicola Di Cosmo
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (2018) — Editor — 9 cópias
The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: "My Service in the Army", by Dzengseo (Routledge Studies in… (2006) 8 cópias
La Cina 1 exemplar(es)
Venezia e i Mongoli : commercio e diplomazia sulle vie della seta nel Medioevo (secoli XIII-XV) (2022) — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Reiternomaden in Europa - Hunnen, Awaren, Ungarn — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
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Reiternomaden in Europa — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
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I got this under the impression it was an account of the Xiongnu Empire and its wars with Han China. It is, in part, that, but Di Cosmo casts his net rather wider, covering also the archaeology of China's early northern fringes, the history of the Rong and Di peoples who preceeded the Xiongnu as China's northern neighbours, and Sima Qian's methods and aims in writing of the Xiongnu in the Shiji.
I found it extremely interesting, especially the sections on the rise of horseback nomadism in eastern Asia and on the Rong and Di (who were not horseback nomads but agriculturalists and footslogger pastoralists).… (mais)
I found it extremely interesting, especially the sections on the rise of horseback nomadism in eastern Asia and on the Rong and Di (who were not horseback nomads but agriculturalists and footslogger pastoralists).… (mais)
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AndreasJ | 1 outra resenha | Jan 20, 2021 |
AndreasJ | 1 outra resenha | Jan 20, 2021 | 
This volume of the Cambridge History of Inner Asia covers the Mongol Empire and its successor states from the rise of Genghis Khan ca 1200 until the completion of the Russian conquest of Central Asia in the late nineteenth century.
Well, there are some gaps; most notably, the Yuan dynasty is only treated peripherally, presumably because it got the better part of a volume to itself in the Cambridge History of China*. For less obvious reasons, there's no chapter or section focusing on the Jungar**, whose created what was arguably the last great steppe empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before coming up second best against the Qing. They play major roles in several chapters, but always as enemies of the group or state in focus.
The early chapters about the rise of the Mongol Empire and the early stages of its disintegration didn't interest me too much; while competent, they tell stories I've read in more detailed versions elsewhere. More interesting were the middle and later chapters detailing the evolutions of steppe polities in the late middle and early modern ages, as well as their gradual incorporation in the Russian and Qing empires.
* In another form of overlap, di Cosmo's chapter here on the Qing conquests in the steppes, the Tarim basin, and Tibet is very similar to his chapter on the same in the Cambridge History of China volume on the early Qing dynasty.
** AKA Junghar, Dzungar, Zungar, and other variants. They're sometimes also known as Kalmyks, Qalmaqs, or Qalmïqs.… (mais)
Well, there are some gaps; most notably, the Yuan dynasty is only treated peripherally, presumably because it got the better part of a volume to itself in the Cambridge History of China*. For less obvious reasons, there's no chapter or section focusing on the Jungar**, whose created what was arguably the last great steppe empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before coming up second best against the Qing. They play major roles in several chapters, but always as enemies of the group or state in focus.
The early chapters about the rise of the Mongol Empire and the early stages of its disintegration didn't interest me too much; while competent, they tell stories I've read in more detailed versions elsewhere. More interesting were the middle and later chapters detailing the evolutions of steppe polities in the late middle and early modern ages, as well as their gradual incorporation in the Russian and Qing empires.
* In another form of overlap, di Cosmo's chapter here on the Qing conquests in the steppes, the Tarim basin, and Tibet is very similar to his chapter on the same in the Cambridge History of China volume on the early Qing dynasty.
** AKA Junghar, Dzungar, Zungar, and other variants. They're sometimes also known as Kalmyks, Qalmaqs, or Qalmïqs.… (mais)
1 AndreasJ | 1 outra resenha | Oct 29, 2020 |
AndreasJ | 1 outra resenha | Oct 29, 2020 | An intense and in-depth look at the Xiongnu of ancient China (focusing on the Ch'in and Han Dynasties). A bit long-winded but important reading for those seeking a stronger understanding of the steppe tribe that caused the first Emperor Ch'in Shih Huangdi's reaction to their rise (the building of the Great Wall of China), the Emperor Wudi's desire to find allies (that resulted in his sending of Zhang Qian to Ferghana), and Sima Qian's eloquent coverage of their appearance in Chinese history.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 190
- Popularidade
- #114,774
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 28
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- 3
As might be guessed from the use of "Inner Asia" rather than "Central Asia" or similar in the title, there is something of an eastern focus: Of the ten consistuent essays, six deals with events east of the Pamirs, one ranges across the entire Mongol Empire, and two deals with Mongols in the West. Only one, Golden on the pre-Mongol western steppes, deal with the western steppes in the absence of direct eastern influence.
Subjects dealt with varies from analysis of individual battles (Herat 1270 and Wadi-'l-Khaznadar 1299) to Qing military ceremonial.
As typical in this sort of collections, the interest varies considerably from essay to essay. But anyone interested in steppe warfare is likely to find something of interest here, particularly those interested in the Mongols and/or Manchus, who separately or together figure in seven out of ten essays.… (mais)