The Horde How the Mongols Changed the World

Name: The Horde
Author: Marie Favereau

Auteur: Marie Favereau

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Marie Favereau

Engels
Paperback
9780674278653
06 september 2022
384 pagina's

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The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring imprint on politics and society in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Cundill Prize Finalist
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Five Books Book of the Year

The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful engines of economic integration in world history to show that their accomplishments extended far beyond the battlefield. Central to the extraordinary commercial boom that brought distant civilizations in contact for the first time, the Horde had a unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement between the khan and nobility—that rewarded skillful administrators and fostered a mobile, innovative economic order. From their capital on the lower Volga River, the Mongols influenced state structures in Russia and across the Islamic world, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced new ideas of religious tolerance.

An eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire that has long been too little understood, The Horde challenges our assumptions that nomads are peripheral to history and makes it clear that we live in a world shaped by Mongols.

“The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity…The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend.”
—Wall Street Journal

“Fascinating…The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world…An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book.”
—The Times

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 september 2022
Aantal pagina's: 384
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Marie Favereau
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 139 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm
Verpakking lengte: 204 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 731 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

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Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

Etnische studies

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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Taal: Engels
Periode: Oudheid, Middeleeuwen
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