Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800)

Download or read book Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800) written by Nicola Di Cosmo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military developments in Inner Asia lay at the basis of the rise of a number of Ancient and Early Modern Empires. This is the first scholarly work to embrace Inner Asian military history across a broad spatial and chronological spectrum, from the Turks and Uighurs to the Pechenegs, and from the Mongol invasion of Syria to the Manchu conquest of China. Based on previously unknown and until now underestimated sources, the contributors to this volume explore the context, development, and characteristic features of Inner Asian warfare, making original contributions to our understanding of Asian and world history.