Nomads and Crusaders A.D. 1000-1368 [Paperback]

[A] fine, arresting book with a clear and novel thesis and a firm grasp of geography. Good stuff, in short... strongly recommended. William H. McNeill

The reader will find here useful information and much food for thought; a book of such a broad scope is rare and has much to recommend it. Speculum

... encyclopedic... there is no book quite like this one. Choice

... a colorful canvas depicting the torrential movements of Eurasian warriors and merchants on ship-boards and horseback between Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific coasts, between streams of accumulated goods and tensions, religious fervor and insatiable greed... Ural-Altaic Yearbook

A healthy antidote to the parochialism that characterizes so much of the run-of-the-mill output of medieval history... American Historical Review

Emphasizing geographical, maritime, institutional, and economic factors, Lewis presents a wide-ranging story of the complex rise and fall of civilizations and explores new conceptual frontiers in the study of world history.

Introduction

Part One
The Matrix of Old World Civilizations

I. East Asia and Greater India
II. The World of Islamic Civilization
III. Byzantine-Russian Civilization
IV. The Civilization of Western Europe

Part Two
Nomadic and Western European Expansion

V. The Assault of Western European and Nomadic Peoples, A.D. 1000-1100
VI. The Balance Restored: Byzantium, Islam, Western Europe, China, and India, 1100-1195
VII. Western European and Mongol Aggression, 1195-1270
VIII. Western European and Mongol World Domination, 1270-1368
IX. Epilogue, 1368-1500

Bibliography
Index