The perilous frontier: Nomadic empires and China (Studies in social discontinuity)

By Thomas J. Barfield

Book Overview

Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that was to shape world history for the next 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557860432
• ISBN13: 9781557860439
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.