TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckwith,Christopher I.
TI  - Empires of the Silk Road: a history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the present 
SN  - 9780691135892 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - DS329.4 .B43 2009
U1  - 958 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - History
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - East Asia
KW  - Middle East
N1  - Map on lining papers; Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-455) and index; Prologue: The hero and his friends -- The chariot warriors -- The royal Scythians -- Between Roman and Chinese legions -- The age of Attila the Hun -- The Türk empire -- The Silk Road, revolution, and collapse -- The Vikings and Cathay -- Chinggis Khan and the Mongol conquests -- Central Eurasians ride to a European sea -- The road is closed -- Eurasia without a center -- Central Eurasia reborn -- Epilogue: The Barbarians -- Appendix A: The Proto-Indo-Europeans and their diaspora -- Appendix B: Ancient Central Eurasian ethnonyms
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008023715.html
ER  -