The Eastern Frontier

Author : Robert Haug
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788317221

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The Eastern Frontier by Robert Haug Pdf

Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads. Given its peripheral location, the history of the 'eastern frontier' in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding empires. However, in this book, Robert Haug argues for a pre-modern Central Asia with a discrete identity, a region that is not just a transitory space or the far-flung corner of empires, but its own historical entity. From this locally specific perspective, the book takes the reader on a 900-year tour of the area, from Sasanian control, through the Umayyads and Abbasids, to the quasi-independent dynasties of the Tahirids and the Samanids. Drawing on an impressive array of literary, numismatic and archaeological sources, Haug reveals the unique and varied challenges the eastern frontier presented to imperial powers that strove to integrate the area into their greater systems. This is essential reading for all scholars working on early Islamic, Iranian and Central Asian history, as well as those with an interest in the dynamics of frontier regions.

Author : Diane Shaw
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421429311

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City Building on the Eastern Frontier by Diane Shaw Pdf

America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the "rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania." The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half of the nineteenth century. Architectural historian Diane Shaw examines the ways in which these new cities were shaped by a variety of constituents—founders, merchants, politicians, and settlers—as opportunities to extend the commercial and social benefits of the market economy and a merchant culture to America's interior. At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning. According to Shaw, city founders and residents deliberately arranged urban space into three segmented districts—commercial, industrial, and civic—to promote a self-fulfilling vision of a profitable and urbane city. Shaw uncovers a distinctly new model of urbanization that challenges previous paradigms of the physical and social construction of nineteenth-century cities. Within two generations, the new cities of Rochester and Syracuse were sorted at multiple scales, including not only the functional definition of districts, but also the refinement of building types and styles, the stratification of building interiors by floor, and even the coding of public space by class, gender, and race. Shaw's groundbreaking model of early nineteenth-century urban design and spatial culture is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the American city.

Author : Michael H. Dodgeon,Samuel N. C. Lieu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134961146

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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363 by Michael H. Dodgeon,Samuel N. C. Lieu Pdf

Collects and translates such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene, to give us a picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history.

Author : Timothy Bruce Mitford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780192843425

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Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier by Timothy Bruce Mitford Pdf

The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown -- until now. Here, Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges, signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.

Author : Charles E. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UVA:X000426224

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The Eastern Frontier by Charles E. Clark Pdf

Traces the early cultural and social development of the rough, lawless wilderness settlements of Maine and New Hampshire.

Author : Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The North-east Frontier of India by Sir Alexander Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Susan Newton-King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521481538

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Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803 by Susan Newton-King Pdf

A history of the conquest and servitude of the Khoisan in the Cape eastern frontier.

Author : Robert Boileau Pemberton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : British
ISBN : UCAL:B2791062

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Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India by Robert Boileau Pemberton Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Greatrex,Samuel N. C. Lieu
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0415465303

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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628 by Geoffrey Greatrex,Samuel N. C. Lieu Pdf

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, with the Romans and Persians engaged in almost constant conflict. This book provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides.

Author : Ronald 'Ron' Baldwin
Publisher : Ronald Baldwin
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449507381

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WOMEN of the Eastern Frontier! by Ronald 'Ron' Baldwin Pdf

Starting out as a narrative of the Clinton - Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in central New York state this book quickly became a story of the contributions women made to the settling of the upper Susquehanna valley. Their daily efforts to maintain a household in times of multiple dangers (wildlife, disease, hostile Indians, lack of medical help, accidents, food shortages and the weather). This tale weaves their stories into a narrative that includes the actual history of the area. Be entertained, and educated as you follow this exciting story of true life on the frontier as it was in the 1770's on the upper Susquehanna.

Author : Thomas Herbert Lewin
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Wild Races of the Eastern Frontier of India by Thomas Herbert Lewin Pdf

Author : Timothy Bruce Mitford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192655349

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Discovering Rome's Eastern Frontier by Timothy Bruce Mitford Pdf

The eastern frontier of the Roman Empire extended from northern Syria to the western Caucasus, across a remote and desolate region 800 miles from the Aegean. It followed the great Euphrates valley to penetrate the harsh mountains of Armenia Minor and south of the Black Sea, along the Pontic coast to the finally reach the foothills of the Caucasus. Though vast, this terrain has long remained one of the great gaps in our knowledge of the ancient world, barely visited and effectively unknown — until now. Here, Timothy Bruce Mitford offers an account of half a century of research and exploration over sensitive territory, in challenging conditions, to discover the material remains of Rome's last unexplored frontier. The geographical framework introduces frontier installations as they occur: fortresses and forts, roads, bridges, signalling stations, and navigation of the Euphrates. The journey is enriched with observations of consuls and travellers, memories of Turkish and Kurdish villagers, and notes and photographs of a way of life little changed since antiquity. The process of discovery was mainly on foot; staying in villages with local guides, following ancient tracks, and conversing with great numbers of people - provincial and district governors, village elders and teachers, police and jandarma, farmers and shepherds, and everyone in between. This came with its perils and pleasures; encounters with treasure hunters and apparent bandits, tales of saints and caravans, arrests and death threats, bears and wild boars, rafts and fishing, earthquakes, all amid the tumultuous events of the second half of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with large-scale maps, photographs, and sketches, this is an account of travel and discovery, set against a background of a disappearing world encountered in the long process of academic exploration.

Author : Robert (ART) Griffing
Publisher : Paramount PressInc
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0967161401

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The Art Of Robert Griffing by Robert (ART) Griffing Pdf

Author : Bertil Lintner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300195675

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Great Game East by Bertil Lintner Pdf

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. FormerFar Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.

Author : Andrew C. Hess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226330303

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The Forgotten Frontier by Andrew C. Hess Pdf

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations, under the guises of the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light of the social, economic, and political affairs at the frontiers between North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.