Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
"...we may be doubly grateful for the quality of this study."    Bernard O'Kane, MESA Bulletin"...Allsen's book is truly groundbreaking."    Ruth I. Meserve, The International History Review"...an important and well-written study of cultural adaptation and reidentification, which tells us far more about Mongol beliefs and practices than Islamic textiles."    Warren C. Schultz, Religious Studies Review"This is a fascinating and erudite book."    Religious Studies Review"This book is a major contribution to Mongol history; to the history of textile production, use, and exchange; to the study of the Central Asian steppe; and to the more general problems associated with cultural exchange and interaction."    Leonard Helfgott, American Historical Review"...Occidentalists and Orientalists alike will find in Allsen's book a valuable correction to the cultural stereotyping that has often characterized sedentary-biased scholarship concerning the role of nomadic peoples in the millennial phenomenon of East-West cultural transmission."  Speculum