Author: Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Author: The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Author: Virgil CiocîltanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004236430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde (Urgench-Sarai-Tana/Caffa) and the Spice Road through the Ilkhanate (Ormuz-Tabriz-Trebizond) – was the two Mongol states’ most important contribution to making the sea a “crossroads of international commerce”. The closest recorded working relationship between European and Asian powers in the medieval period, achieved by the joint efforts of the Chinggisid rulers and the Italian merchant republics, was not realised via the usual geographic channels of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Fertile Crescent, but rather by roundabout routes to the Black Sea. Thus at the same time as the sea fulfilled its function as a crossroads of long-distance Eurasian trade, it was also a bypass.
Elastostatics and Kinetics of Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Shell-Type Structures
Author: Liviu LibrescuPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789028600355
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
1917–1922
Author: Leon TrotskyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111504743
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
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The Transition to Late Antiquity on the lower Danube
Author: Andrew PoulterPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785709593
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1567
Book Description
Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term program of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a program that commenced with the excavation and full publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well-dated finds and their full publication provides a unique database for the late Roman period in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery (local and imported fine ware), glass, copper alloy finds, inscriptions and dipinti (on amphorae), as well as quantified environmental reports on animal, birds, and fish with specialist reports on the archaeobotanical material, glass analysis, and querns. The report also details the results of site-specific intensive survey, a new method developed for use in the rich farmland of the central Balkans. In addition, there is a detailed report on a most remarkable and well-preserved aqueduct, which employed the largest siphon ever discovered in the Roman Empire. This publication will provide a substantial database of material and environmental finds, an invaluable resource for the region and for the Roman Empire: material invaluable for studies, which seeks to place the late Roman urban and military identity within its regional and extra-regional economic setting.
Mapping St. Petersburg
Author: Julie A. BucklerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187614
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of the world's most treasured literary masterpieces. What they overlook is the vast uncharted territory in between. In Mapping St. Petersburg, Julie Buckler traces the evolution of Russia's onetime capital from a "conceptual hierarchy" to a living cultural system--a topography expressed not only by the city's physical structures but also by the literary texts that have helped create it. By favoring noncanonical works and "underdescribed spaces," Buckler seeks to revise the literary monumentalization of St. Petersburg--with Pushkin and Dostoevsky representing two traditional albeit opposing perspectives--to offer an off-center view of a richer, less familiar urban landscape. She views this grand city, the product of Peter the Great's ambitious vision, not only as a geographical entity but also as a network of genres that carries historical and cultural meaning. We discover the busy, messy "middle ground" of this hybrid city through an intricate web of descriptions in literary works; nonfiction writings such as sketches, feuilletons, memoirs, letters, essays, criticism; and urban legends, lore, songs, and social practices--all of which add character and depth to this refurbished imperial city.
NOAA Technical Memorandum EDS.
Author: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Scenarios of Power: From Alexander II to the abdication of Nicholas II
Author: Richard WortmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691029474
Category : European 6
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The History of Mongolia (3 Vols.)
Author: David SneathPublisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004216359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, including some translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source materials and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume’s editors. This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential reference in two volumes includes works by noted scholars including Charles Bawden, Igor de Rachewiltz, David Morgan, Owen Lattimore and Caroline Humphrey. It also includes excerpts from translations of source documents, such as the works of Rashid al-Din, The Secret History of the Mongols and the Yuan Shih. In addition, more recent historical periods are covered, with material such as Batmonh’s speech that heralded Mongolia’s versions of glasnost and perestroika, as well as Baabar’s Buu Mart, a key work associated with the Democratic Revolution of 1990.
OTS.
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description