Emerging Powers in Eurasian Comparison, 200–1100
Walter Pohl|Veronika Wieser
This book compares the ways in which new powers arose shadows of Roman Empire and its Byzantine Carolingian successors, Iran, Caliphate China first millennium CE. These were often established by external military elites who had served empire. They remained an uneasy balance with remaining empire, could eventually replace it, or be drawn into imperial sphere again. Some relied on dynastic legitimacy, others ethnic identification, while most them sought legitimation. Across Eurasia, their dynamic was similar many respects; why outcomes so different? Contributors are Alexander Beihammer, Maaike van Berkel, Francesco Borri, Andrew Chittick, Michael R. Drompp, Stefan Esders, Ildar Garipzanov, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Helmut Reimitz, Jonathan Shepard, Q. Edward Wang, Veronika Wieser, Ian N. Wood.