Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especia

Provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation until the modern era.

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.

Medieval Persia 1040-1797 charts the remarkable history of Persia from its conquest by the Muslim Arabs in the seventh century AD to the modern period at the en