Excited to say that my new article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, "Animal History of the Mongolian Plateau", is out!

#tengri #mongolsky #envhist #animalhistory

oxfordre.com/asianhistory...

Herbert Spencer is another early conquest theorist to have a significant influence on later conquest theorists. He developed his theory independently of Dühring, and his theory is one of the most comprehensive of conquest theories.

One of the earliest Conquest Theorists is arguably Eugen Dühring.
Unfortunately, none of his principal works seems to have been translated into English (I might be wrong).
Yet, Engels’s Anti-Dühring does provide a good summary of his Theory of Force.

Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing

Talked with Maggie Freeman on her podcast “Nomads, Past and Present” about “The Nomadic Leviathan“:
#TheNomadic Origin of the State,
#TheWeberian State,
#The Conquest Theory of State Formation,
#Bureaucracy as a method conquest rule,
#Extrahuman Transportation ⬇️
newbooksnetwork.com/the-nomadic-...

Maggie Freeman is at it again with a lively podcast on how empires arise. Not surprising from her Mongol guest, horse are the answer.
#steppehistory, #chinesehistory

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists.

Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!