The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Marie Favereau
(Author)
Description
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
--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.
Product Details
Price
$29.95
$27.85
Publisher
Belknap Press
Publish Date
April 20, 2021
Pages
384
Dimensions
6.5 X 9.3 X 1.5 inches | 1.63 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780674244214
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About the Author
Marie Favereau is Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University. She has been a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a research associate for the Nomadic Empires project at the University of Oxford. Her books include La Horde d'Or et le sultanat mamelouk and the graphic novel Gengis Khan.
Reviews
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
It is far too often forgotten that Asia's nomadic empires, from the Sogdians and Huns through the Parthians and Seljuks, were key drivers of greater Asia's rich cultural diversity. This extraordinary book vividly details how the nomadic Mongols operated the largest empire of the premodern world, through practices that continue to shape today's world.--Parag Khanna, author of The Future Is Asian
A deeply compelling, sympathetic, and highly engaging account of how the Horde was created and of its lasting impact on the evolution of what we now call 'globalization.' Favereau's book will transform our of understanding of world history.--Anthony Pagden, author of Worlds at War
Favereau's detailed and objective account of the Mongol conquest and rule of Russia rescues the era from dark neglect and prejudice to reveal its powerful positive and negative influences in shaping modern Eurasia. This highly readable and deeply informed work fills in one of history's important missing chapters.--Jack Weatherford, author of Genghis Khan and the Quest for God
Combining material and textual sources, Favereau has written the best book on the Jochid Khanate: the first to see events resolutely from a Jochid perspective, without foreclosing on the vast contexts that bind the history of the Horde to that of Eurasia and the world.--Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Pathfinders
In this riveting book, Favereau shows how the most enduring descendants of Chinggis Khan's Mongol imperium--the Western or 'Golden' Horde--fashioned an exceptionally resilient imperial system with far-reaching influence in western Eurasia. She has challenged us to think afresh about how mobility and empire can be fused into dynamic political and cultural forms.--John Darwin, author of After Tamerlane
Eye-opening...A meaningful corrective to popular misconceptions about Mongols' role in world history.-- "Publishers Weekly" (1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM)
It is far too often forgotten that Asia's nomadic empires, from the Sogdians and Huns through the Parthians and Seljuks, were key drivers of greater Asia's rich cultural diversity. This extraordinary book vividly details how the nomadic Mongols operated the largest empire of the premodern world, through practices that continue to shape today's world.--Parag Khanna, author of The Future Is Asian
A deeply compelling, sympathetic, and highly engaging account of how the Horde was created and of its lasting impact on the evolution of what we now call 'globalization.' Favereau's book will transform our of understanding of world history.--Anthony Pagden, author of Worlds at War
Favereau's detailed and objective account of the Mongol conquest and rule of Russia rescues the era from dark neglect and prejudice to reveal its powerful positive and negative influences in shaping modern Eurasia. This highly readable and deeply informed work fills in one of history's important missing chapters.--Jack Weatherford, author of Genghis Khan and the Quest for God
Combining material and textual sources, Favereau has written the best book on the Jochid Khanate: the first to see events resolutely from a Jochid perspective, without foreclosing on the vast contexts that bind the history of the Horde to that of Eurasia and the world.--Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Pathfinders
In this riveting book, Favereau shows how the most enduring descendants of Chinggis Khan's Mongol imperium--the Western or 'Golden' Horde--fashioned an exceptionally resilient imperial system with far-reaching influence in western Eurasia. She has challenged us to think afresh about how mobility and empire can be fused into dynamic political and cultural forms.--John Darwin, author of After Tamerlane
Eye-opening...A meaningful corrective to popular misconceptions about Mongols' role in world history.-- "Publishers Weekly" (1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM)
