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The Horde - How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
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The Horde - How the Mongols Changed the World (Hardcover)
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2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist A Financial Times Best Book of
the Year A Spectator Best Book of the Year A 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.
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