British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 133

After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam

edited by Joe Cribb & Georgina Herrmann

Published 2007
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

246 × 189 mm; 530 pages + 7 plates
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726384-6
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This new study of the history and archaeology of Central Asia is crucial for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. Ideas and religions travelled the trade routes linking China, India, the Middle East and Rome. The period from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the arrival of Islam was one of change and conflict between settled peoples and new arrivals, city-dwellers and nomads.

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