CONTENTS
Preface = xi
1. Introduction : the concept of Inner Asia / DENIS SINOR(Indiana University) = 1
2. The geographic setting / ROBERT N. TAAFFE(Indiana University) = 19
General geographic chara...
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CONTENTS
Preface = xi
1. Introduction : the concept of Inner Asia / DENIS SINOR(Indiana University) = 1
2. The geographic setting / ROBERT N. TAAFFE(Indiana University) = 19
General geographic characteristics = 19
The natural zones of Inner Asia = 27
Tundra = 31
Forest zone = 32
Steppe zones = 33
Desert zone = 37
3. Inner Asia at the dawn of history / A. P. OKLADNIKOV(formerly of Novosibirsk) ; Translated Julia Crookenden
4. The Scythians and Sarmatians / A. I. MELYUKOVA(Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR) ; Translated Julia Crookenden
The Scythians = 97
The Sarmatians = 110
5. The Hsiung-nu / YING-SHIH Y u ·· (Princeton University) = 118
The rise of Motun = 120
The Hsiung-nu and the Han under the Ho-ch'in treaties = 122
The Hsiung-nu and their non-Chinese neighbors = 125
The Han offensive = 128
The struggle for the Western Regions = 131
The Hsiung-nu lose control of Western Regions = 133
Regionalism and leadership crisis = 135
From split to submission = 138
The final split : the Southern and Northern Hsiung-nu = 141
The Southern Hsiung-nu under the Han tributary system = 143
The Northern Hsiung-nu = 144
6. Indo-Europeans in Inner Asia / A. K. NARAIN(University of Wisconsin) = 151
7. The Hun period / DENIS SINOR = 177
8. The Avars / SAMUEL SZ A ´ DECZKY-KARDOSS(University of Szeged) = 206
The written sources = 206
The peoples and languages of the Avar state = 221
The archeological evidence = 225
9. The peoples of the Russian forest belt / PETER B. GOLDEN(Rutgers State University) = 229
The early Uralic community = 230
The Finno-Ugrians = 232
The Oghur Turks and Volga Bulgharia = 234
The origins and development of the Hungarians = 242
The formation of the Hungarians = 243
Extinct peoples of the Middle Volga region = 248
The Volga Finnic peoples = 250
The Permians = 252
The Ob-Ugrians = 253
10. The peoples of the south Russian steppes / PETER B. GOLDEN = 256
The Ponto-Caspian steppes after Attila = 256
The advent of the Oghur tribes = 257
The Sabirs = 259
Avars and T u ·· rks = 260
Magna Bulgaria = 261
The Khazars = 263
The Pechenegs = 270
The Oghuz (Torki) in the south Russian steppes = 275
The Cumans = 277
11. The establishment and dissolution of the T u ·· rk empire / DENIS SINOR = 285
Early mentions of T u ·· rks = 285
Origin of T u ·· rks : T u ·· rks subgroups = 287
T u ·· rks and the Juan-juan = 291
The founding of the first T u ·· rks kaghanate = 297
Byzantine-T u ·· rks relations = 301
The partition of the T u ·· rks state = 305
The Western T u ·· rks = 308
The second T u ·· rks kaghanate = 310
Epilogue = 313
12. The Uighurs / COLIN MACKERRAS(School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia) = 317
Ethnic composition, territorial extent and administration = 320
Religion = 329
Social change = 335
13. The Karakhanids and early Islam / PETER B. GOLDEN = 343
The Turkic steppe in early S a ? m a ? nid times = 348
The S a ? m a ? nids and Islam in Central Asia = 352
The origins of the Karakhanids = 354
The later S a ? m a ? nids and the steppe tribes = 358
The Oghuz yabghu state and the Saljuk origins = 361
The Karakhanid-Ghaznavid wars and the Saljuks = 362
The Saljuks in Central Asia = 365
14. Early and medieval Tibet / HELMUT HOFFMAN(Indiana University) = 371
Pre-and early history = 371
The rise of the Tibetan empire = 376
The period of the regency = 379
The zenith of the Tibetan empire : Khri-srong Ide-brtsan (755-97) = 382
The decline and disintegration of the empire = 385
Administration and social structure during the empire = 389
The "dark period" (850-1000) and the "second introduction of Buddhism" = 392
Development of the theocratic state : Tibet and the world empire of the Mongols = 395
Declin of the Sa-skya power and the rule of Phag-mo-gru-pa = 397
15. The forest peoples of Manchuria : Kitans and Jurchens / HERBERT FRANKE(University of Munich) = 400
The kitans = 401
The Jurchens = 412
Bibliography = 424
Index = 495
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