GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD (Record no. 11136)

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International Standard Book Number 9780609809648
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Item number 7686
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9 (RLIN) 1918
Personal name JACK WEATHERFORD
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Title GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Medium ENGLISH
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction eps-library eps-library General Stacks 11/22/2017 7 950.21 7686 7686 01/09/2025 01/02/2025 1 11/22/2017 Books The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols' "Great Taboo"'Genghis Khan's homeland and forbidden burial site'tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world. Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order. But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule.