China marches west : the Qing conquest of Central Eurasia / Peter C. Perdue.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 671-705) and index.

Part 1. The formation of the central Eurasian states. Environments, state building, and national identity -- The Ming, Muscovy, and Siberia, 1400-1600 -- Central Eurasian interactions and the rise of the Manchus, 1600-1670 -- Part 2. Contending for power. Manchus, Mongols, and Russians in conflict, 1670-1690 -- Eating snow : the end of Galdan, 1690-1697 -- Imperial overreach and Zunghar survival, 1700-1731 -- The final blows, 1734-1771 -- Part 3. The economic base of empire. Cannons on camelback : ecological structures and economic conjunctures -- Land settlement and military colonies -- Harvests and relief -- Currency and commerce -- Part 4. Fixing frontiers. Moving through the land -- Marking time : writing imperial history -- Part 5. Legacies and implications. Writing the national history of conquest -- State building in Europe and Asia -- Frontier expansion in the rise and fall of the Qing -- Appendixes : A. Rulers and reigns -- B. The Yongzheng emperor reels from the news of the disaster, 1731 -- C. Haggling at the border -- D. Gansu harvests and yields -- E. Climate and harvests in the northwest.

Also available in the ASCC collection (DS754.P47 2005d c.2).

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The nomadic leviathan : a critique of the Sinocentric paradigm / by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The habit of thought -- The state before the Sinocentric paradigm -- Inner Asia before the Sinocentric paradigm -- The Sinocentric scheme : aim, origins, and theory -- Kinship turn and evolutionary schemes -- Beyond evolutionary materialism : the military pathway -- The Sinocentric paradigm in (frontier) history -- The nomadic leviathan : extrahuman transportation and the military constitution -- The tribal inner Asia : Biblical ethnology.

"Devised to legitimize the Republic of China's claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic"-- Provided by publisher.

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