[书讯] Bryan K. Miller：《匈奴：世界第一个游牧帝国》

Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire作者: Bryan K. Miller出版社: Oxford University Press出版年: 2023-12-14页数: 384定价: USD 85.00装帧: HardcoverISBN: 9780190083694This book raises the case of the world's first nomadic empire, the Xiongnu, as a prime example of the sophisticated developments and powerful influence of nomadic regimes. Launching from a reconceptualization of the social and economic institutions of mobile pastoralists, the collective chapters trace the course of the Xiongnu Empire from before its initial rise, traversing the wars that challenged it and the reformations that made it stronger, to the legacy left after its eventual fall.Xiongnu expounds the economic practices and social conventions of steppe herders as fertile foundations for institutions and infrastructure of empire, and renders a model of "empires of mobilities," which engaged the control less of towns and territories and more of the movements of communities and capital to fuel th ………………………………