Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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...show more
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Weatherford writes to explain and rehabilitate Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Empire to Western readers. Specifically, he seeks to replace a notion of barbarism with one of pragmatism, of simple raiders with pancultural trade, openness and learning, and of brutality with enviable codes of law, honor and equality.
Weatherford locates this rehabilitation by briefly retelling how Temujin rose to become Genghis Khan - a combination of epic and morali...read more
Weatherford locates this rehabilitation by briefly retelling how Temujin rose to become Genghis Khan - a combination of epic and morali...read more
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