Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire

by Miller

This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise, traversing the wars that challenged it and the reformations that made it stronger, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190083697
• ISBN13: 9780190083694
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 6.6"