The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols

by Christoph Baumer

Book Overview

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784534900
• ISBN13: 9781784534905
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 5.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.5" x 11.4"