Xiongnu The World's First Nomadic Empire

Xiongnu The World's First Nomadic Empire
- ISBN 13:
9780190083694
- ISBN 10:
0190083697
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/16/2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Xiongnu expounds the economic practices and social conventions of steppe herders as fertile foundations for institutions and infrastructure of empire, and renders a model of “empires of mobilities,” which engaged the control less of towns and territories and more of the movements of communities and capital to fuel their regimes. By weaving together archaeological examinations with historical investigations, Bryan K. Miller presents a more complex and nuanced narrative of how an empire based firmly in the steppe over two thousand years ago managed to formulate a robust political economy and a complex political matrix that capitalized on mobilities and alternative forms of political participation, and allowed the Xiongnu to dominate vast realms of central Eurasia and leave lasting geopolitical effects on the many worlds around them.