The Royal Hunt In Eurasian History by Thomas T. Allsen
A comparative history of elite hunting across Eurasia from antiquity to the early modern era, showing how the chase served as statecraft, military training, ritual spectacle, and economic enterprise. Surveying steppe traditions alongside Chinese, Persian, and Islamic courts, it explores hunting parks, mass drives, falconry, and the tribute, logistics, and specialized crafts that sustained them. The study emphasizes the hunt as a theater of sovereignty, a tool for managing landscapes and populations, and a conduit for transregional exchange of technologies, animals, and ideas, with particular dynamism during the era of Mongol rule.
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- 2006
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