BOOK é Æ René Grousset
While the early history of the steppe nomad is shrouded in obscurity The Empire of the Steppes brings to the general reader and the specialist the majestic sweep grandeur and the overriding intellectural grasp of This is a great synthesis work on the history of Central Asia that may never be superseded because of the challenges in learning all the necessary languages It must be understood that this is purely a political history There is no effort to touch social economic or demographic literary or architectural history The other GoodsRead reviewers who complained of the lack of maps pictures and other illustrations are highly justified With very little trouble this excellent political history could have been transformed into a informative book for the amateur reader
René Grousset Æ EBOOK
L'empire des steppes Attila Gengis Khan TamerlanGrousset's original Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in French in 1939 and in English in 1970 this great work of synthesis brings before us the great people of the steppes dominated by three mighty f Interesting and very helpful as it covers a lot of history and tends to relate events simply; however the book is full of biases particularly an orientalist bias