Download or read book The Tartar Khan s Englishman written by Gabriel Ronay and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A splendid biography...it is gripping reading."--Economist. "No writer of historical fiction or Hollywood extravaganza could invent action half as exciting as are the rare adventures and painful peregrinations of this remarkable 13th-century Englishman."--The Times. Out of a 13th-century monastic chronicle came the seed of this incredible biography of the English-born personal envoy, interpreter, and spy in the house of the Tartar Khan. Pieced together by a Transylvanian writer who discovered the existence of this pivotal figure, it is a tale peppered with kings and warriors and mass murderers--and the mysterious man whose actions and diplomacy preceding the Tartar holocaust have left their indelible stamp on the face of Europe.
Download or read book The Tartar Khan s Englishman written by Gabriel Ronay and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Trail of Genghis Khan written by Tim Cope and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century – a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still lead today, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary. From horse-riding novice to travelling three years and 10,000 kilometres on horseback, accompanied by his dog Tigon, Tim learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub-zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of Kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the Carpathians. Along the way, he was taken in by people who taught him the traditional ways and told him their recent history: Stalin's push for industrialisation brought calamity to the steepe and forced collectivism that in Kazakhstan alone led to the loss of several million livestock and the starvation of more than a million nomads. Today Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang precariously in the balance in the post-Soviet world.
Download or read book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World written by Jack Weatherford and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-03-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Mongolia and the UK in the 20th Century written by Zolboo Dashnyam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of Mongolia's relations with external powers via the prism of the relationship with the UK, drawing on archival documents and other historical resources in different languages such as Russian, Chinese and Mongolian. From the early history of the Mongolian state as part of the socialist alliance, Mongolia has had relations with the UK, which was the first western nation to recognize Mongolian independence in 1963. The evolving political situation in Mongolia and the world is here refracted through the relationship with the UK. Further, it introduces readers to the cultural and ideological differences between Mongolian foreign relations belong to different historical periods. This book will be of interest to scholars of Asia, of the post-socialist world, and of the role of the UK in the world.
Download or read book The History of England From the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth written by Sharon Turner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
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Download or read book Studies in the History of English Commerce in the Tudor Period written by Armand Jacques Gerson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Medieval Ethnographies written by Joan-Pau Rubies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the twelfth century, a growing sense of cultural confidence in the Latin West (at the same time that the central lands of Islam suffered from numerous waves of conquest and devastation) was accompanied by the increasing importance of the genre of empirical ethnographies. From a a global perspective what is most distinctive of Europe is the genre's long-term impact rather than its mere empirical potential, or its ethnocentrism (all of which can also be found in China and in Islamic cultures). Hence what needs emphasizing is the multiplication of original writings over time, their increased circulation, and their authoritative status as a 'scientific' discourse. The empirical bent was more characteristic of travel accounts than of theological disputations - in fact, the less elaborate the theological discourse, the stronger the ethnographic impulse (although many travel writers were clerics). This anthology of classic articles in the history of medieval ethnographies illustrates this theme with reference to the contexts and genres of travel writing, the transformation of enduring myths (ranging from oriental marvels to the virtuous ascetics of India or Prester John), the practical expression of particular encounters from the Mongols to the Atlantic, and the various attempts to explain cultural differences, either through the concept of barbarism, or through geography and climate.
Download or read book The History of England During the Middle Ages written by Sharon Turner and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Accession of Edward the First From the Norman conquest to the accession of Edward the First written by Sharon Turner and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia Afganistan Turkistan and Beloochistan with Histor Notices of the Countries Lying Between Russia and India written by Joseph Pierre Ferrier and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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