Nomads and Crusaders

<p>[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<br /><br />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<br /><br /> . . . encyclopedic . . . there is no book quite like this one. --Choice<br /><br /> . . . 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<br /><br />A healthy antidote to the parochialism that characterizes so much of the run-of-the-mill output of medieval history . . . --American Historical Review<br /><br />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.</p>