The Heartland
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
The Heartland by Stuart Legg is a sweeping historical and geographical account of Central Asia, the vast interior region that has shaped the course of world civilisation for millennia. The book chronicles the rise and fall of the great nomadic empires that thundered across the Eurasian steppe, from the Scythians and Huns to the Mongols and Timurids, presenting the region not as a peripheral backwater but as the very engine of global history. Legg argues with authority that control of this landlocked heartland — what the geographer Halford Mackinder famously termed the geographical pivot of history — determined the fate of empires from Rome to China. Written with the clarity of a seasoned documentary filmmaker, the narrative brings to life the harsh landscapes and extraordinary peoples who inhabited them, illustrating why this forgotten crossroads of civilisations still resonates in the modern world.
Author: Stuart Legg
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
The Heartland by Stuart Legg is a sweeping historical and geographical account of Central Asia, the vast interior region that has shaped the course of world civilisation for millennia. The book chronicles the rise and fall of the great nomadic empires that thundered across the Eurasian steppe, from the Scythians and Huns to the Mongols and Timurids, presenting the region not as a peripheral backwater but as the very engine of global history. Legg argues with authority that control of this landlocked heartland — what the geographer Halford Mackinder famously termed the geographical pivot of history — determined the fate of empires from Rome to China. Written with the clarity of a seasoned documentary filmmaker, the narrative brings to life the harsh landscapes and extraordinary peoples who inhabited them, illustrating why this forgotten crossroads of civilisations still resonates in the modern world.