Pamela Kyle Crossley is Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A former Guggenheim and NEH fellow, she was awarded of the AAS Levenson Prize. Her books include The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800, What Is Global History?,A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, and The Manchus.

• List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I: The Integrity of Eurasia1 The Lost Continent 2 Light-Mindedness II: Steppe Power in Settled Medieval Eurasia3 The Turkic Tide 4 Belief and Blood 5 Sultans and Civilization III: The Age of Far Conquest6 The Predatory Enterprise 7 The Empires of the Toluids 8 Return of the TurksIV: The Forge9 Dissidence and Doubt 10 Intimations of Nationality 11 Ruling in Place Epilogue Index

Pamela Crossley’s magnificent book is a deeply historical study that seeks to compel a profound reassessment of the place of Eurasian thought in the genealogy of modernity. It contends—on the basis of massive evidence quarried from a stunningly capacious and deftly argued reading of the connected histories of Inner Eurasia from the East Asian Steppe to eastern Europe—that we really need to rethink the role of nomads in world history. Is the modern world European? Or is its genealogy more complex and far-reaching? Crossley argues that before it was declared by Renaissance thinkers to be the special heritage of the West, Greek thought was deeply imbricated in the world-bestriding, multiconfessional civilization of Eurasia. And therein hangs a tale. In so doing she provokes a much overdue and critically important historical argument.

Pamela Kyle Crossley is Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A former Guggenheim and NEH fellow, she was awarded of the AAS Levenson Prize. Her books include The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800, What Is Global History?,A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, and The Manchus.

• List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I: The Integrity of Eurasia1 The Lost Continent 2 Light-Mindedness II: Steppe Power in Settled Medieval Eurasia3 The Turkic Tide 4 Belief and Blood 5 Sultans and Civilization III: The Age of Far Conquest6 The Predatory Enterprise 7 The Empires of the Toluids 8 Return of the TurksIV: The Forge9 Dissidence and Doubt 10 Intimations of Nationality 11 Ruling in Place Epilogue Index

Pamela Crossley’s magnificent book is a deeply historical study that seeks to compel a profound reassessment of the place of Eurasian thought in the genealogy of modernity. It contends—on the basis of massive evidence quarried from a stunningly capacious and deftly argued reading of the connected histories of Inner Eurasia from the East Asian Steppe to eastern Europe—that we really need to rethink the role of nomads in world history. Is the modern world European? Or is its genealogy more complex and far-reaching? Crossley argues that before it was declared by Renaissance thinkers to be the special heritage of the West, Greek thought was deeply imbricated in the world-bestriding, multiconfessional civilization of Eurasia. And therein hangs a tale. In so doing she provokes a much overdue and critically important historical argument.

Pamela Kyle Crossley is Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A former Guggenheim and NEH fellow, she was awarded of the AAS Levenson Prize. Her books include The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800, What Is Global History?,A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, and The Manchus.

• List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Introduction I: The Integrity of Eurasia1 The Lost Continent 2 Light-Mindedness II: Steppe Power in Settled Medieval Eurasia3 The Turkic Tide 4 Belief and Blood 5 Sultans and Civilization III: The Age of Far Conquest6 The Predatory Enterprise 7 The Empires of the Toluids 8 Return of the TurksIV: The Forge9 Dissidence and Doubt 10 Intimations of Nationality 11 Ruling in Place Epilogue Index

Pamela Crossley’s magnificent book is a deeply historical study that seeks to compel a profound reassessment of the place of Eurasian thought in the genealogy of modernity. It contends—on the basis of massive evidence quarried from a stunningly capacious and deftly argued reading of the connected histories of Inner Eurasia from the East Asian Steppe to eastern Europe—that we really need to rethink the role of nomads in world history. Is the modern world European? Or is its genealogy more complex and far-reaching? Crossley argues that before it was declared by Renaissance thinkers to be the special heritage of the West, Greek thought was deeply imbricated in the world-bestriding, multiconfessional civilization of Eurasia. And therein hangs a tale. In so doing she provokes a much overdue and critically important historical argument.