Feeding the Frontier: Contested Landscapes and Borderland Economies in the Western Peripheries of the Early Tang Empire
Maddalena Barenghi
This paper explores land use and resource control in the Tang Empire’s western peripheries, focusing on the western Loess Plateau and the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. By the seventh century, a growing military presence in the region led to increased competition for land. Both the Tang and Tibetan empires exploited the...
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