Warfare in inner Asian history
Subtitle: 500-1800
By: edited by Nicola Di Cosmo.
Contributors: Di Cosmo, Nicola, 1957-
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section eight, Central Asia ;; v. 6; Handbuch der Orientalistik.; v. 6.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Asia, Central -- History, Military.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1200); title: Strategy and Contingency in the Tang Defeat of the; title: Eastern Turks, 629-63033; title: David A. Graff; title: The Uighur-Chinese Conflict of 840-84873; title: Michael R. Drompp; title: War and Warfare in the Pre-Cinggisid Western Steppes; title: of Eurasia105; title: Peter B. Golden; title: PART TWO; title: THE MONGOL AGE (1200-1400); title: The Battle of Herat (1270): A Case of Inter-Mongol; title: Warfare175; title: Michal Biran; title: Whither the Ilkhanid Army? Ghazan's First Campaign into; title: Syria (1299-1230)221; title: Reuven Amitai; title: The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian; title: Empire265; title: Thomas Allsen; title: The Mongol Conquest of Dali: The Failed Second Front295; title: John E. Herman; title: PART THREE; title: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD (1400-1800); title: Military Aspects of the Manchu Wars against the Caqars337; title: Nicola Di Cosmo; title: Fate and Fortune in Central Eurasian Warfare: Three Qing; title: Emperors and their Mongol Rivals369; title: Peter C. Perdue; title: Military Ritual and the Qing Empire405; title: Joanna Waley-Cohen; title: General Index445.