Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299129023 (1299129021)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Broadway Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Medieval,
War,
Military,
Politics,
Asia,
China,
World History
Having listened a couple of years kago to the 5 Star captivating and detailed podcast by Funjokyk Dan Carlin - HardCore Histroy[b:Wrath of the Khans|37804116|Wrath of the Khans (Hardcore History, #43-47)|Dan Carlin|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1514984298s/37804116.jpg|59475697][bc:Wrath of t...
This is a very entertaining, thought-provoking and well-written book. The relatively low rating reflects my lingering skepticism. The back of the book itself calls it "revisionist history" and Weatherford is not a historian, but an anthropologist. Although to give him his due, he was part of a team ...
I bought this book for two reasons. 1) It was a daily deal and 2) the audible reviews on this books seemed to be one of the most consistently positive I had ever seen.I knew nothing about that period of history before reading this book. My bad. Now I understand why I was wrong to have ignored this t...
This is a book that can and should be read by everyone, at least all with the slightest interest in world history. I feel this so adamantly since what it tells us does away with serious misconceptions about the Mongol Empire. It explains in a clear and comprehensible manner how the world we live in...
This was quite interesting without being very interesting, unfortunately. Theres a lot of cool bits and pieces, but they're thrown off a bit off-hand. The Mongols, we're told, established a common currency and universities, but how did that currency actually function, and what did those universities...
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