Description: Title: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World Author: Favereau, Marie Publisher: Belknap Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 384 Dimensions: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.50d Product Weight: 1.63 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780674244214 2021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year "Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only to conquer but to control a vast empire. A remarkable book."--Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 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 force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime--a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility--rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance. The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Horde : How the Mongols Changed the World
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Asia / Central Asia, Civilization, Asia / General, Military / Medieval
Item Height: 1.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Marie Favereau
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
