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"This essay is not intended to be comprehensive; rather, it gives readers a general idea of the five major Eurasian legal systems (Rome, Greece, the Near East, India, China) in their historical and political contexts. It also examines, briefly, the different stages of a typical legal case in each system; and because my main area of specialization is Greek law, and the Athenian legal system may be unfamiliar to many readers, I discuss it in somewhat more detail. My main thesis is that legal systems develop to meet the political needs of their communities. To illustrate this I contrast the legal systems of the two major ancient empires, Rome and China, with that of the much smaller Athenian political community, the polis."

"This book explores the Eurasian borderlands as contested 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts. Analyzing the struggles of Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Iranian and Qing empires, Alfred J. Rieber surveys the period from the rise of the great multicultural, conquest empires in the late medieval/early modern period to their collapse in the early twentieth century. He charts how these empires expanded along moving, military frontiers, competing with one another in war, diplomacy and cultural practices, while the subjugated peoples of the borderlands strove to maintain their cultures and to defend their autonomy. The gradual and fragmentary adaptation of Western constitutional ideas, military reforms, cultural practices and economic penetration began to undermine these ruling ideologies and institutions, leading to the collapse of all five empires in revolution and war within little more than a decade between 1911 and 1923."

"China is said to be the winner of globalization; to some extent, its true. Chinas economy has been rapidly striding forward in the past three decades after the launching of reform and openning up policy. As a result, Chinas comprehensive national strength has been greatly enhanced. Generally speaking, Chinas rise is welcomed in the international society, however, some cautious comments and debates in the meantime, have also been put forward. This is of course somewhat logic. As a nation phsically so big of 1.3 billion population, with so many uncertainties and flexibilities, its great changes naturally would attract curiosities and interests, and even worries from the international society."

"This book gives an up-to-date overview of changes in ecology, climate and use of the entire Eurasian steppe area and their effects on livelihoods of steppe people. It integrates knowledge that so far was available only in a spectrum of locally used languages."

"Focuses on the British Russia Company, revealing how commercial competition between the British and Russian empires became entangled."

"The fall of the Ottoman and Russian empires were watershed events in modern history. The unraveling of these empires was both cause and consequence of World War I and resulted in the deaths of millions. It irrevocably changed the landscape of the Middle East and Eurasia and reverberates to this day in conflicts throughout the Caucasus and Middle East. Shattering Empires draws on extensive research in the Ottoman and Russian archives to tell the story of the rivalry and collapse of two great empires. Overturning accounts that portray their clash as one of conflicting nationalisms, this pioneering study argues that geopolitical competition and the emergence of a new global interstate order provide the key to understanding the course of history in the Ottoman-Russian borderlands in the twentieth century. It will appeal to those interested in Middle Eastern, Russian, and Eurasian history, international relations, ethnic conflict, and World War."

"This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central and West Asia, which had a broad impact on Eurasian history in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Yuan era witnessed perhaps the greatest inter-civilisational contacts in world history and has thus begun to attract the attention of both scholars and the general public. This volume offers tangible evidence of the Western and Central Asian influences, via the Mongols, on Chinese, and to a certain extent Korean, medicine, astronomy, navigation, and even foreign. "