Mapping Civilizations Across Eurasia
This book is a history reader and cultural primer for students and aspiring scholars of past and contemporary interactions among civilizations over the Eurasian landmass. Tracing a human journey that spans several million years, this general survey of civilizations comprises seven sections: Studies...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Mapping Civilizations
- Part II. Studies on Civilization
- 2. From Movable Type to the World Wide Web
- 3. Speaking of Mesopotamia
- 4. My Take on the Middle East
- 5. Cultural Conflict & Integration Throughout History
- 6. Tracing the Footsteps and Influence of Xuanzang and Ibn Battuta
- 7. My Views on Orientology, Area Studies and Silk Road Research
- Part III. Silk Road
- 8. Cultural Interaction Along the Silk Road
- 9. The New Silk Road: Strategic Thinking
- 10. Frankincense, Oil and Geopolitics
- 11. China and Pakistan: A Historical View
- 12. Tempest in Eurasia: Russia, Ukraine and Georgia
- Part IV. Survey of Greater Central Asia
- 13. Greater Central Asia and the New Silk Road
- 14. Migration of Populations Within Greater Central Asia
- 15. Greater Central Asia: A Cultural Mosaic
- 16. My Journeys to Xinjiang: From Dream to Reality
- Part V. Portrait of India
- 17. Experiencing Emerging India
- Part IX. Conclusions
- 38. The Ancient Silk Road: “Geography as Destiny”
- 39. The New Silk Road: Eurasia’s Historical Destiny
- 18. Getting Acquainted with the Indian Elephant
- 19. India’s “Special Administrative Region”—Pondicherry
- 20. India’s Take on “Belt and Road”
- Part VI. Persian Cultural Sphere
- 21. Early Civilizations on the Iranian Plateau
- 22. Renascence of Persian Culture
- 23. Islam & the Invaders
- 24. Persian Poetry & Painting
- 25. Shia Islam and the Safavid Dynasty
- 26. Persian Civilization & Iran's Modernization
- Part VII. Caucasus
- 27. Ethnographic Museum on the Border Between Europe and Asia
- 28. Musical Chairs in the Caucasus
- 29. North Caucasus: Russia's Southern Frontier
- 30. The Post-Soviet South Caucasus
- 31. South Caucasus: International Machinations
- Part VIII. Turkish March
- 32. Westward Migration of the Turkic-speaking People
- 33. The Road to Republicanism
- 34. Toward a Modern Republic
- 35. European Turkey: The Bosphorus and Edirne
- 36. Anatolian Turkey: Trabzon and Konya
- 37. Emergence of Neo-Ottomanism