The Mongol Empire And Its Legacy

Author : Morgan,Reuven Amitai-Preiss
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004492738

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The Mongol Empire and its Legacy by Morgan,Reuven Amitai-Preiss Pdf

The Mongol empire was founded early in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan and within the span of two generations embraced most of Asia, becoming the largest land-based state in history. The united empire lasted only until around 1260, but the major successor states continued on in the Middle East, present day Russia, Central Asia and China for generations, leaving a lasting impact - much of which was far from negative - on these areas and their peoples. The papers in this volume present new perspectives on the establishment of the Mongol empire, Mongol rule in the eastern Islamic world, Central Asia and China, and the legacy of this rule. The various authors approach these subjects from the view of political, military, social, cultural and intellectual history. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Mongols
ISBN : PSU:000020822453

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The Mongol Empire by Michael Prawdin Pdf

Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351479288

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The Mongol Empire by Michael Prawdin Pdf

In his prologue to The Mongol Empire, Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later, the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West. A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence, The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world's largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people, which, through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia. Maurice Collis in Time and Tide said of The Mongol Empire: "It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting...The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part. " while The Observer commented, "it is a fine book, full of dramatic occasion well used, clear in proportions."

Author : Linda Komaroff,Stefano Carboni,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Ilkhanid
ISBN : 9781588390714

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The Legacy of Genghis Khan by Linda Komaroff,Stefano Carboni,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Komaroff (curator of Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Carboni (curator of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art) produced this fine catalog to accompany a major show of Ilkhanid (as the Mongol dynasty was called after conversion to Islam) art exhibited at the authors' museums in New York and Los Angeles in 2002-2003. Most of the manuscripts, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, and other finely decorated objects were created in Iran. Many objects are also included from the Yuan Dynasty in China, during which the Mongols ruled. Eight full-length essays are built around the objects of the exhibition and other works, all depicted in color. The essays describe the history, culture, courtly life, artistic exchanges, religious art, arts of the book, and creation of a new visual language. Distributed by Yale U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412828970

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The Mongol Empire by Michael Prawdin Pdf

The rise of the Mongol empire under Jenghis Khan and his successors, and its gradual decay. With a concluding chapter on the place of Mongolia in the world today.

Author : Linda Komaroff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047418573

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Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan by Linda Komaroff Pdf

This volume offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan’s disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake.

Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306823961

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Genghis Khan by Frank McLynn Pdf

Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the most heinous murderer in history, who was Genghis Khan? His actual name was Temujin, and the story of his success is that of the Mongol people: a loose collection of fractious tribes who tended livestock, considered bathing taboo, and possessed an unparalleled genius for horseback warfare. United under Genghis, a strategist of astonishing cunning and versatility, they could dominate any sedentary society they chose. Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to becoming Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived.

Author : Paul Ratchnevsky
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631189491

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Genghis Khan by Paul Ratchnevsky Pdf

Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia. By 1206, Genghis Khan had completed the unification by conquest of all the tribes of Mongolia, and was acclaimed as universal Khan. He then launched his assault on Northern China. Peking was captured in 1215, and the Chin were finally subjugated by Genghis's successors in 1234. This is the definitive biography.

Author : Jennifer Swanson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499463767

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The Fall of the Mongol Empire by Jennifer Swanson Pdf

As spectacular as its creation was, the fall of the Mongol Empire was just as remarkable. Its descent into chaos was signaled by inter-family rebellion across the four khanates established by Genghis Khan. As weaker Mongol leaders struggled to retain control, drought, flood, famine, and the bubonic plague eventually contributed to the collapse of each khanate. As this volume amply demonstrates, though the Mongols were fierce warriors, their legacy also includes a culture of honor and discipline, centralized government structure, trade promotion and communication routes, and religious tolerance—all of which helped spread wealth, information, and technology across two continents.

Author : Michael Prawdin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Mongols
ISBN : OCLC:17427474

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The Mongol Empire by Michael Prawdin Pdf

Author : Adam J. Silverstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139464086

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Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World by Adam J. Silverstein Pdf

Adam Silverstein's book offers a fascinating account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the correspondence transported often included confidential reports from a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as espionage-networks through which news reached the central authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events. The book sheds light not only on the role of communications technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a long-awaited contribution to the history of pre-modern communications systems in the Near Eastern world.

Author : Peter Ludwig Brent
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000103162115

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The Mongol Empire by Peter Ludwig Brent Pdf

Author : Jack Weatherford
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780609809648

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

Author : Mary Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1560063122

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The Mongol Empire by Mary Hull Pdf

A historical overview of the rise of the Mongol Empire in Asia, its effects, and its legacy.

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482448

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In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire by David M. Robinson Pdf

Memories of the Mongol Empire loomed large in fourteenth-century Eurasia. Robinson explores how Ming China exploited these memories for its own purposes.