paperback edition of Anatoly M. Khazanov's famous comparative study of pastoral nomadism. Hailed by reviewers as "majestic and magisterial," Nomads and the Outside World was first published in English in 1984. With the author's new introduction and an updated bibliography, this classic is now available in an edition accessible to students.

How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? This text explores these and other questions in. Christopher Miller ranges from the beginnings...(展开全部)

李莎，女，历史学博士，副教授，现任职于郑州大学国际教育学院，主要研究方向为蒙元史、中外文化交流，曾被公派到美国约翰·霍普金斯大学医学史系做访问学者。出版独著《中国人口通史·元代卷》(人民出版社2012年版)等，在《中州学刊》《学术探索》《齐鲁学刊》《兰台世界》等期刊发表学术论文20多篇，主持“中国古代社会医疗救助制度研究”等省级课题。 唐仲明，男，历史学博士，现任职于山东大学历史文化学院，主要研究方向为佛教考古、魏晋隋唐考古、文化遗产保护，曾到哈佛大学建筑与艺术史系做访问学者。出版《世界文明珍宝——大英博物馆之250藏品》等译著3部，发表《东魏北齐响堂与青州造像比较研究》《从帐形龛饰到帐形龛——北朝石窟中一个被忽视的问题》等论文、译文近20篇，主持“孔孟文化遗产的保护与发展对策研究”等省级课题。

李莎，女，历史学博士，副教授，现任职于郑州大学国际教育学院，主要研究方向为蒙元史、中外文化交流，曾被公派到美国约翰·霍普金斯大学医学史系做访问学者。出版独著《中国人口通史·元代卷》(人民出版社2012年版)等，在《中州学刊》《学术探索》《齐鲁学刊》《兰台世界》等期刊发表学术论文20多篇，主持“中国古代社会医疗救助制度研究”等省级课题。 唐仲明，男，历史学博士，现任职于山东大学历史文化学院，主要研究方向为佛教考古、魏晋隋唐考古、文化遗产保护，曾到哈佛大学建筑与艺术史系做访问学者。出版《世界文明珍宝——大英博物馆之250藏品》等译著3部，发表《东魏北齐响堂与青州造像比较研究》《从帐形龛饰到帐形龛——北朝石窟中一个被忽视的问题》等论文、译文近20篇，主持“孔孟文化遗产的保护与发展对策研究”等省级课题。

The interaction between the Eurasian pastoral nomads - most famously the Mongols and Turks - and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. Nomads were not only raiders and conquerors, but also transmitted commodities, ideas, technologies and other cultural items. At the same time, their sedentary neighbours affected the nomads, in such aspects as re...(展开全部)

Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 is a social history of the Mongols’ pilgrimages to Wutaishan in late imperial and Republican times. In this period of economic crisis and rise of nationalism and anticlericalism in Mongolia and China, this great Buddhist mountain of China became a unique place of intercultural exchanges, mutual borrowings, and compet...(展开全部)

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources—including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoma...(展开全部)