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Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City-life studies dynasties of Turkic, Mongol or Turko-Mongol origin from a spatial perspective.
This study provides a critical edition of chapters nine and ten of 'Muhit al-Tavarikh' (The Sea of Chronicles) by Muhammad Amin born Mirza Muhammad Zaman Bukhari (Sufiyani). 'Muhit al-tavarikh' is a valuable source for the study of late seventeenth-century Central Asian history,…
This study provides a critical edition of chapters nine and ten of 'Muhit al-Tavarikh' (The Sea of Chronicles) by Muhammad Amin b. Mirza Muhammad Zaman Bukhari (Sufiyani). 'Muhit al-tavarikh' is a valuable source for the study of late seventeenth-century Central Asian history, h…
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all …
"In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman…
In this comprehensive biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the la…
