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    The Empire of the Steppes
    A History of Central Asia

    René Grousset (Author), Naomi Walford (Translated by)

    9780813513041

    Paperback / softback, published 1 January 1970

    718 pages
    21 x 14 x 4.8 cm, 0.853 kg

    While the early history of the steppe nomads is shrouded in obscurity, this obscurity lifts somewhat after their contact with cultures possessing written histories. But even when information about them becomes relatively more plentiful, linguistic ocmplexities make its interpretation extremely difficult. Thus, while the number of specialized studies devoted to them is impressive, general works embracing the many disciplines involved, or syntheses on a grand scale encompassing the sprawling history of these peoples, are exceedingly scarce. Among these very few, The Empire of the Steppes is outstanding. The aim of this first English-language edition has been to make available a major work useful to the general reader as well as to the specialist, above all an edition which retains the majestic sweep and grandeur, as well as the overriding intellectual grasp, of Grousset's original. 

    Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in 1939, this great work of synthesis rapidly became indispensable to scholars fluent in French. Now, after a decade of preparation, this unique history of Central Asia is available in English, in a felicitous translation by Naomi Walford from the 1952 French edition, the last published in Grousset's lifetime. Nineteen maps have been expressly prepared for the Rutgers edition, and a comprehensive 54-page index has been added. In addition, specialists have checked the text, notes, and bibliographical references to bring this vast work into conformity with present-day academic standards. 

    Foreword
    Preface
    List of Maps
    Itroduction: The Steppe and History

    I. THE HIGH PLATEAUS OF ASIA UNTIL, THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
      1. Early History of the Steppes: Scythians and Huns
      2. The Early Middle Ages: T'u-chueh Empire
      3. The Turks and Islam to the Thirteenth Century
      4. The Russian Steppe from the Sixth to the  Thirteenth

    II. THE JENGHIZ-KHANITE MONGOLS
      5. Jenghiz Khan
      6. The Three Immediate Successors to Jenghiz Khan
      7. Kublai and the Mongol Dynasty of China
      8. Turkestan Under the House of Jagatai
      9. Mongol Persia and the House of Hulagu
      10. The Khanate of Kipchak
      11.Tamerlane

    III. THE LAST MONGOLS 
      12. The Mongols of Russia
      13. The Shaybanids
      14. The Last Jagataites
      15. The Last Empires of Mongolia from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

    Notes
    Index
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