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Laddar... The Tibetan Empire in central Asia : a history of the struggle for great power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the early Middle Ages (utgåvan 1987)av Christopher I. Beckwith
VerksinformationThe Tibetan Empire in Central Asia av Christopher I. Beckwith
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Hänvisningar till detta verk hos externa resurser. Wikipedia på engelska (25)This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road lands that connected Europe and East Asia. It shows the importance of overland contacts between East and West in the Early Middle Ages and elucidates Tibet's role in the conflict over Central Asia. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The book is a narrative history of military campaigns and diplomatic manoeuvres - there's hardly anything on how the conquered territories were ruled, on how the Tibetan armies were organized, or similar. And given the barrage of unfamiliar geographical names, the book is badly let down by the inadequate maps, which makes those campaigns hard to follow. The Internet isn't too much help here either, as many of the places concerned have different names in different languages and at different times, and the ones Beckwith chose back in the 1980s aren't necessarily the ones you're most likely to find on the Web today.
After five chapters of dry narrative, Beckwith rather incongruously rounds off with an Epilogue that seeks to argue that Tibet and Carolingian Francia were not backwards compared to Tang China, the Caliphate, and Byzantium. A worthy argument, perhaps, but seems like it'd better belong in another book entirely.
I thus found the book rather frustrating - but there, three and a half decades on, seems to be nothing else on offer on the subject.