University of California Press, 1987. — 278 p. Using a mixture of Chinese, Persian, and Russian sources, Allsen reconstructs the reign of Mongke, the last ruler of a unified Mongol empire. The central underlying theme of this book is that Mongke was an extremely pragmatic ruler who used policies that appealed to both conservative Mongol elites and newly subjugated Chinese...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 240 p. In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2021. — 394 p. Rise of the Mongols offers readers a selection of five important works that detail the rise of the Mongol Empire through Chinese eyes. Three of these works were written by officials of South China's Southern Song dynasty and two are from officials from North China writing in the service of the Mongol rulers. Together, these accounts...
Penguin Classics, 2023. — 569 p. — ISBN 978-0-241-19792-9. The Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world. Writing in the thirteenth century, the Secret Historian - whose identity remains unknown - combines insider history and verse to chronicle the life of Genghis Khan and the empire he founded. Following Genghis from his early years, through...
Routledge, 2002. — 475 p. Charles Bawden has written in this book the first complete account in English of Mongol history in the colonial and modern periods. He begins his account at the end of the seventeenth century, when the Manchus overran all China and much of central Asia, and swallowed up the old Mongol nation - left exhausted and politically disunited by the imperial...
Routledge, 2000. — 224 p. Until the collapse of the socialist system in Mongolia in 1990, Mongolian social sciences was fundamentally schematised in accordance with the prevailing political ideology of socialism, considering the country's history in the theoretical framework of historical materialism, the theory of socio-economic formation, and the feudalism model. Here,...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2003. — 369 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). The A to Z of the Mongol World Empire examines the history of the Mongol Empire, the pre-imperial era of Mongolian history that preceded it, and the various Mongol successor states that continued to dominate Eurasia long after the breakdown of Mongol unity. Divided into three parts, the first...
Captivating History, 2019. — 100 p. Around the year 1162, near the modern capital of Mongolia, a baby boy was born into a fractious and violent world. The birth of this child must have caused quite a stir among the members of the nomadic tribe that he had been born into; word soon traveled that the son of Yesügei, the Borjigin tribal leader, had been born clutching a blood clot...
Branden Books, 2011. — 136 p. Except for Marco Polo (whose book entitled, The Million, meaning a million lies about a fabulous China), Europeans knew very little about China. When the Mongols pushed out of China in their conquests to the west, suddenly the Europeans were faced with a veritable threat. In 1241, Mongols had killed more than 100,000 knights and soldiers in Russia,...
Perennial Press, 2016. — 480 p. This comprehensive work is the companion volume by the same author entitled The Mongols, A History, and specifically gives a history of the Mongol's invasions into Russia beginning in the mid-13th century under the direction of Genghis Khan. This book was straight history and tells of the vastness and expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 1300's...
Combined Press, 1996. — 426 p. The Mongols erupted out of Central Asia in 1206 and soon controlled an empire stretching from Poland to Korea; although remembered as a destructive force, they united a great part of the world under one rule, and their combined arms and mobile tactics have had considerable influence on subsequent military thinkers. Praised by American president...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2018. — 50 p. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan, a confederation of nomadic farmers transformed into a powerful military force. This text demonstrations how an aggressive empire could have been established from such agrarian roots, inviting the reader to follow the rise of the Mongol Empire from its founding through its expansion into the...
The Rosen Publishing Group, 2016. — 70 p. Under Kublai Khan, the Mongols conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and established rule over China. The ensuing Yuan Dynasty, though in power for less than a century, was notable for its blending of Mongol and Chinese culture in drama, music, and painting, as well as government reform and public-works projects. In this riveting account,...
Belknap Pres / Harvard University Press, 2021. — 384 p. The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a...
Rosen Publishing Group, 2016. — 64 p. Contrary to popular portrayal, the Mongols were not simply bloodthirsty barbarians cutting a swath of destruction across the eastern world. They were ruthless in war, but they were also a well-organized military force whose leadership excelled at strategy and military innovation. This examination of Mongol military prowess dives into their...
Praeger Publishers, 2004. — 176 p. This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant (c.1172-1245), one of the greatest Generals in military history, surely the equal of Hannibal and Scipio in tactical brilliance and ranking right along with both Alexander and Caesar as a strategist. Mongol General Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed all of...
2nd Revised ed. — Routledge, 2018. — 452 p. The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This book has been designed to provide a synthesis of previous scholarship on relations...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — 255 p. The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. George Lane argues...
Routledge, 2018. — 136 p. The polymath, Qutb al-Dīn Shīrāzī, operated at the heart of the Ilkhanate state (1258–1335) from its inception under Hulegu. He worked alongside the scientist and political adviser, Nasir al-Dīn Ṭūsī, who had the ear of the Ilkhans and all their chief ministers. The Mongols in Iran provides an annotated, paraphrased translation of a thirteenth-century...
Routledge, 2021. — 544 p. The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive overview of the Mongols’ military, political, socio-economic and cultural relations with Central and Eastern European nations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, and one which...
Bantam, 2005. — 464 p. Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Mongolia he is the father of the nation. In the USA, Time magazine, voted Genghis Khan 'the most important person of the last...
Bantam Press, 2007. — 442 p. Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the...
University of California Press, 1993. — 255 p. Traces the history of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan and his descendants, describes their military successes, and discusses the Mongol influence on Europe. This is a great overview of the part of Mongolian history that most intrigues westerners, the years of the great Khans. It is a very accessible book that doesn't require...
Routledge, 2022. — 1086 p. — (Routledge Worlds). Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule shaped the trajectory of Eurasian history from Central Europe to the Korean Peninsula, from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth century. Contributing authors consider how...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 416 p. As the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire looms large in history: it permanently changed the map of Eurasia as well as how the world was viewed. As the empire expanded, the Mongols were alternately seen as liberators, destroyers, and harbingers of apocalyptic doom. At the same time, they ushered in an era of...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 650 p. Covering the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, this essential reference presents the figures, places, and events that led this once-beleaguered region to rise up to become the largest contiguous empire in history.In the 13th century, Chinggis Khan rose to power, leading an empire of a million people and defeating surrounding regions with much larger...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 142 p. As a soldier and general, statesman and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is an almost legendary figure. His remarkable achievements and his ruthless methods have given rise to a sinister reputation. As Chris Peers shows, in this concise and authoritative study, he possessed exceptional gifts as a leader and manager of men - he ranks among the greatest...
Nowtilus, 2010. — 256 p. Borja Pelegero apresenta as origens do Império Mongol em um estudo conciso e bem documentado do nomadismo e das etnias que Gengis Khan conseguiu reunir. O armamento, seus meios de transporte, sua vizinhança com a milenar China: todo o cenário pronto para que Temujin – mais conhecido por seu título de Gengis Khan – entre em ação. Gengis quer dizer...
Routledge, 2005. — 594 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction,...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 317 p. This Historical A-Z Dictionary of Mongolia focuses on the new Mongolia that is still emerging, providing entries on persons, institutions, places, and events that have become important in the 1990s. It also reviews the communist period, including similar entries, and sometimes takes a look further back, especially in the chronology. Helpfully, it...
Fourth Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2017. — 1120 p. his fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Mongolia covers the people and organizations that brought Mongolia from revolution and oppression to independence and democracy, and its current unprecedented level of national wealth and international growth. This is done through a chronology, an introduction,...
Cooper Square Press, 2015. — 280 p. In the month of the Horse, in the Year of the White Horse, Tim Severin along with six Mongol companions and photographer Paul set out on an extraordinary journey. Intent on following the paths trodden by the soldiers of Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century, they ventured to cross some of the most remote and inhospitable territory of...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2012. — 208 p. As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Eight centuries ago the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 394 p. The Mongols created the greatest landlocked empire known to history. It was an empire created and sustained by means of conquest. Initially an insignificant tribal leader, Genghis Khan gradually increased his power, overcoming one rival after another. After he had subjugated all tribes of Inner Asia, he struck southward into China and later...
Rosen Publishing Group, 2016. — 65 p. 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...
New York: Viking, 2016. — 432 p. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his...
М.: Научный мир, 2002. — 248 с. — ISBN: 5-89176-182-3. В книге публикуются оленные камни Монголии - мегалитические художественные памятники эпохи поздней бронзы - раннескифского времени. Оленные камни Монголии - важнейший исторический источник для решения актуальной в отечественной исторической науке проблемы истоков скифо-сибирскогс звериного стиля. Для историков, археологов и...
Монография. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 432 c. — ISBN: 978-5-227-02115-1. В книге ярко и в доступной форме рассказывается о сложнейшем и интереснейшем периоде мировой истории - Монгольской империи Чингисхана и его преемников. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся историей. Очень много иллюстраций. Содержание: Великая степь в пространстве и времени....
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1989. — 383 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-02-016664-2. Работа построена на большом, в основном археологическом материале. Автор широко использует данные палеоантропологии, этнографии, а также письменных источников. Последовательно, начиная с III тысячелетия до н. э., прослеживается этногенетический процесс. Автор выделяет два больших...
Пер. : Малеин Александр Иустинович. Ред., вступ. статья, примеч. Н. П. Шастиной. — М.: Государственное издательство географической литературы, 1957. — 291 с. В книге представлены труды двух авторов. Первый -- "История монголов", автор которого Джиованни (Иоанн) дель Плано Карпини (посланец папы римского Иннокентия IV, первый из европейцев посетивший Монгольскую империю)...
Пер. с англ. С. В. Иванова. — СПб.: Евразия, 2009. — 478 с. — (Историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 978-5-8071-0326-0; ISBN: 978-5-8071-0335-2. История Евразии начинается с монголов. Они создали самую обширную империю в мировой истории, простиравшуюся от Кореи до Западной Руси на севере и от Бирмы до Ирака на юге. Монголы господствовали на большей части территории Евразии и...
2-е издание. — М.: Яуза-пресс, 2022. — (Лучшие воины в истории). На страницах этой книги известный специалист по военной истории Монгольской империи дает широкую картину сил и возможностей, с которыми завоеватели установили политическое господство над русскими княжествами, продолжавшееся с середины XIII по XV в., и значительной частью Восточной Европы. Впервые в исторической...
М.: AСТ: Люкс, 2005. — 557 с. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-17-027916-7; ISBN: 5-9660-0959-7. Для мировой истории возникновение в XIII веке военной державы Чингисхана, сумевшей подчинить себе многие более развитые цивилизации того времени ‒ Китай, почти весь мусульманский мир, Русь и часть Восточной Европы, ‒ явление чрезвычайное. Особое значение оно имело для...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 640 с. — ISBN: 3-8071-0203-7. Перевод с латинского и персидского языков С. В Аксенова. Настоящее исследование посвящено тайным механизмам формирования политических мифов о Чингисхане. Базовый корпус мифов об основателе империи интенсивно формировался при его сыне и преемнике, великом хане Угедее (1229—1241). С середины XIII в. эти мифы становятся...
СПб.: Евразия, 2007. — 864 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8071-0226-6. Автор исследования, историк А. Г. Юрченко, полагает, что книга Марко Поло является имперской космографией, нежели записками путешественника. С восточными космографиями ее сближает систематизированный характер описаний и полнота охвата материала: около пятисот городов и провинций мира. Ни купцы, ни путешественники не имели...
Тег содержит литературу, посвященную истории одного из регионов Азии. Центральная Азия - обширный, не имеющий выхода к океану регион Азии. Он включает в себя территорию, на которой в настоящее время располагаются Монголия, СУАР, Внутренняя Монголия и Тибет Китая, районы азиатской России южнее таёжной зоны, Казахстан, Кыргызстан, Узбекистан, Туркменистан и Таджикистан Центральная...
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