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  • Published: 15 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780609809648
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World



A magnificently researched New York Times bestseller revisionist history of Genghis Khan and his legacy, arguing that rather than a brutal barbarian, Khan was one of the most progressive leaders in world history who joined East and West and brought about the "Global Awakening" that led to the Renaissance.

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 did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege.

From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

  • Published: 15 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780609809648
  • Imprint: Crown
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (Crown, 1988, Ballentine 1989 - Fawcett pb sold 178,561 copies) as well as Native Roots (Crown, 1991) Savages and Civilization (Crown 1994) and The History of Money (Crown 1998).

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Praise for Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

"Reads like the Iliad...Part travelogue, part epic narrative, and part speculative musing...Weatherford has a good eye for detail and a fluid style." --Washington Post Book World