| 书目名称 | Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire | | 副标题 | Archaeology, Mobilit | | 编辑 | William Honeychurch | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Approaches Asian steppe history from a "within Asia" perspective, rather than a China-focused perspective.Uses theory of spatial politics and mobility along with archaeological evidence to create a co | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This monograph uses the latest archaeological results from Mongolia and the surrounding areas of Inner Asia to propose a novel understanding of nomadic statehood, political economy, and the nature of interaction with ancient China. In contrast to the common view of the Eurasian steppe as a dependent periphery of Old World centers, this work views Inner Asia as a locus of enormous influence on neighboring civilizations, primarily through the development and transmission of diverse organizational models, technologies, and socio-political traditions. This work explores the spatial management of political relationships within the pastoral nomadic setting during the first millennium BCE and argues that a culture of mobility, horse-based transport, and long-distance networking promoted a unique variant of statehood. Although states of the eastern steppe were geographically large and hierarchical, these polities also relied on techniques of distributed authority, multiple centers, flexiblestructures, and ceremonialism to accommodate a largely mobile and dispersed populace. This expertise in “spatial politics” set the stage early on for the expansionistic success of later Asian empires un | | 出版日期 | Book 2015 | | 关键词 | Asian prehistory studies; archaeology of Eurasian steppes; archaeology of nomadic Asian cultures; polit | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1815-7 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-4327-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4939-1815-7 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 |
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