Thomas T Allsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 537185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas T Allsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas T |
| FAMILY NAME | Allsen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLSEN T T |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Mongols and Siberia
The chapter reviews the Mongols’ political, administrative, and economic relations with the forest peoples of Siberia and the Mongol impact on the region. It stresses the inclusion of Siberia’s northern products in the Eurasian east–west trade network and the transformations – linguistic, ethnic, and religious – caused by Mongol rule, as well as providing a panoramic view of forest–steppe relations before and after the Mongol period.
Imperial Ideology
The chapter reviews the components of Mongol imperial ideology, notably the Heavenly Mandate and charisma, as well as their development, dissemination, uses, and legacies, in both steppe and sown.
The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and …
Technician Transfers in the Mongolian Empire: 2002 Dept. of Central Eurasian Studies Series, Lecture 2
Illegal economies and borderlands are intrinsically connected: geographical remoteness, weak state control, and dynamic social texture provide the kind of "grey" zone wherein a shadow economy may thrive. The present article aims to explore one of such middle grounds by focusing on the evolution of market-based crimes in Kalimpong between the mid-1930s and the early 1960s: the timeframe, deliberately limited to the years preceding WWII up to the S…
Natural History and Cultural History: The Circulation of Hunting Leopards in Eurasia, Seventh–Seventeenth Centuries
Eurasia after the Mongols
Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
Pre-modern Empires
Empire is regularly defined as a political unit of large extent controlling a number of territories and peoples under a single sovereign authority. Of the three criteria, only one, sovereign authority, is quantified. In the early sixteenth century, maritime Europe, starting on its own path to empire, encountered large imperial regimes across the globe — the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Ming, Aztec, and Inca — each of which had an identifiable geneal…
Mongols as vectors for cultural transmission
For more than a century, the place of the Mongolian Empire in world history has provoked intense debate, much of it heavily coloured by national sentiment and the dictates of official ideology To some, the Mongolian onslaught was a regressive force in human history, one that ‘retarded’ the natural development of the numerous civilized societies that fell under their control. Others, in contrast, have celebrated the Mongols' religious tolerance an…
The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age
This volume centres on the history and legacy of the Mongol World Empire founded by Chinggis Khan and his sons, including its impact upon the modern world. An international team of scholars examines the political and cultural history of the Mongol empire, its Chinggisid successor states, and the non-Chinggisid dynasties that came to dominate Inner Asia in its wake. Geographically, it focuses on the continental region from East Asia to Eastern Eur…
The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History
Preface 1. Hunting Histories -World Histories and the World of Animals -Pursuing Protein -Pursuing Profit -Pursuing Power -This Hunting History 2. Field and Stream -Who Hunted? -Where Did They Hunt? -How Often Did They Hunt? -How Did They Hunt? -On What Scale Did They Hunt? 3. Parks -The Paradise and Its Antecedents -Hunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery -Hunting Parks in East Asia -The Purposes of Paradise 4. Partners -Animals Assistant…
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire
Robing in the Mongolian Empire
In recounting the enthronement of Chinggis Qan (reigned 1206–1227), the historian Hayton (Het'um), a prince of Lesser Armenia long in Mongolian service, says that in those early days they made do with "black felt" because they had no "fairer cloth [drap]." Very soon, however, the Mongols enthusiastically embraced a much fairer cloth of state. Indeed, this textile became closely identified with the Mongols and its fame spread across Eurasia from t…
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one an…
The Cultural Worlds of Marco Polo
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. As with other forms of booty generated by conquest, the Mongolian elite systematically identified, and shared out, the cultural resources oftheir more sedentary subjects. Thus, the Mongols military-political dominance ofthe continent was accompanied by-even accomplished through-cultural dependence. As…
Commodity and exchange in the Mongol Empire: A cultural history of Islamic textiles
Thomas Allsen investigates the significance of cloth and colour in the political cultures of Islam, Iran, the steppe peoples, and China, thereby illuminating the cultural dynamics which condition the act of borrowing. His conclusion places the transmission of Muslim textiles and clothing culture to China within the broader context of the history of the Silk Road, the primary link in East-West cultural communication during the pre-modern era. The …
Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire
Spiritual Geography and Political Legitimacy in the Eastern Steppe
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China
Toward the end of 1236 Mongolian armies crossed the Volga, the right wing moving north into the Bulghar lands and the Russian principalities, and the left wing into the north Caucasus and the western Qipchaq steppe. The unparalleled unification of the steppe tribes under the aegis of the Mongols in the thirteenth century stands in sharp contrast with the division and discord of the twelfth century. This chapter discusses the social order, economi…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yuan dynasty that eventually engulfed the whole of China. It investigates the historical background from which these regimes emerged and shows how each in its own way set up viable institutions for the control of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural population. It discusses these pro…
Thomas J. Barfield: The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China. 221 B.C. to A.D. 1757. Cambridge, Mass, and Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 [1989]. Paperback £12.95
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Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Mongke in China, Russia, and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259
Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Möngke in China, Russia and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one an…
Commodity and exchange in the Mongol Empire: A cultural history of Islamic textiles
Thomas Allsen investigates the significance of cloth and colour in the political cultures of Islam, Iran, the steppe peoples, and China, thereby illuminating the cultural dynamics which condition the act of borrowing. His conclusion places the transmission of Muslim textiles and clothing culture to China within the broader context of the history of the Silk Road, the primary link in East-West cultural communication during the pre-modern era. The …
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire
Guard and Government in the Reign of The Grand Qan Mongke, 1251-59
The Cultural Worlds of Marco Polo
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. As with other forms of booty generated by conquest, the Mongolian elite systematically identified, and shared out, the cultural resources oftheir more sedentary subjects. Thus, the Mongols military-political dominance ofthe continent was accompanied by-even accomplished through-cultural dependence. As…
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
Pre-modern Empires
Empire is regularly defined as a political unit of large extent controlling a number of territories and peoples under a single sovereign authority. Of the three criteria, only one, sovereign authority, is quantified. In the early sixteenth century, maritime Europe, starting on its own path to empire, encountered large imperial regimes across the globe — the Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Ming, Aztec, and Inca — each of which had an identifiable geneal…
The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty
Current Ming Bibliography in Western Languages
A Survey of Recent Soviet Contributions to Ming History
In the last twenty years there has been a substantial increase in both the quantity and quality of Soviet sinological literature. Because of the language problem, this literature has remained outside the purview of many western sinologists. In recent years, however, American and European scholars have begun to recognize the importance of the Soviet contribution to Chinese studies. Gilbert Rozman, for example, has argued that “along with Chinese, …
Current Ming Bibliography in Western Languages
Current Ming Bibliography in Western Languages
The Military Establishment of the Yuan Dynasty
The Asian Trade Revolution of the Seventeenth Century: The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade
(1981). THE ASIAN TRADE REVOLUTION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THE EAST INDIA COMPANIES AND THE DECLINE OF THE CARAVAN TRADE. Ming Studies: Vol. 1981, No. 1, pp. 29-32
Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia
(1981). IMPERIAL NOMADS: A HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA. Ming Studies: Vol. 1981, No. 1, pp. 25-29
Guard and Government in the Reign of The Grand Qan Mongke, 1251-59
Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Möngke in China, Russia, and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259
Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Mongke in China, Russia, and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259
Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Möngke in China, Russia and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259
Thomas J. Barfield: The perilous frontier: nomadic empires and China. 221 B.C. to A.D. 1757. Cambridge, Mass, and Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 [1989]. Paperback £12.95
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China
Toward the end of 1236 Mongolian armies crossed the Volga, the right wing moving north into the Bulghar lands and the Russian principalities, and the left wing into the north Caucasus and the western Qipchaq steppe. The unparalleled unification of the steppe tribes under the aegis of the Mongols in the thirteenth century stands in sharp contrast with the division and discord of the twelfth century. This chapter discusses the social order, economi…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yuan dynasty that eventually engulfed the whole of China. It investigates the historical background from which these regimes emerged and shows how each in its own way set up viable institutions for the control of a multi-racial, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural population. It discusses these pro…
Spiritual Geography and Political Legitimacy in the Eastern Steppe
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
Commodity and exchange in the Mongol Empire: A cultural history of Islamic textiles
Thomas Allsen investigates the significance of cloth and colour in the political cultures of Islam, Iran, the steppe peoples, and China, thereby illuminating the cultural dynamics which condition the act of borrowing. His conclusion places the transmission of Muslim textiles and clothing culture to China within the broader context of the history of the Silk Road, the primary link in East-West cultural communication during the pre-modern era. The …
Ever Closer Encounters: The Appropriation of Culture and the Apportionment of Peoples in the Mongol Empire
Robing in the Mongolian Empire
In recounting the enthronement of Chinggis Qan (reigned 1206–1227), the historian Hayton (Het'um), a prince of Lesser Armenia long in Mongolian service, says that in those early days they made do with "black felt" because they had no "fairer cloth [drap]." Very soon, however, the Mongols enthusiastically embraced a much fairer cloth of state. Indeed, this textile became closely identified with the Mongols and its fame spread across Eurasia from t…
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one an…
The Cultural Worlds of Marco Polo
In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast, transcontinental empire that intensified commercial and cultural contact throughout Eurasia. As with other forms of booty generated by conquest, the Mongolian elite systematically identified, and shared out, the cultural resources oftheir more sedentary subjects. Thus, the Mongols military-political dominance ofthe continent was accompanied by-even accomplished through-cultural dependence. As…
The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire
Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia
The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History
Preface 1. Hunting Histories -World Histories and the World of Animals -Pursuing Protein -Pursuing Profit -Pursuing Power -This Hunting History 2. Field and Stream -Who Hunted? -Where Did They Hunt? -How Often Did They Hunt? -How Did They Hunt? -On What Scale Did They Hunt? 3. Parks -The Paradise and Its Antecedents -Hunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery -Hunting Parks in East Asia -The Purposes of Paradise 4. Partners -Animals Assistant…
Mongols as vectors for cultural transmission
For more than a century, the place of the Mongolian Empire in world history has provoked intense debate, much of it heavily coloured by national sentiment and the dictates of official ideology To some, the Mongolian onslaught was a regressive force in human history, one that ‘retarded’ the natural development of the numerous civilized societies that fell under their control. Others, in contrast, have celebrated the Mongols' religious tolerance an…
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