[Review] Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Abstract
Jack Weatherford has crafted an elegant narrative of Genghis
Khan and the Mongolian imperial age expertly synthesizing existing
historiography on the Mongols, with a tour through the customs of
the Mogul peoples with a cultural history of how Chinese, Middle
Eastern, and European peoples rewrote the history of the Mongols as
one of sheer barbarism. Throughout, Weatherford threads his expert
knowledge of the cultural anthropology of tribal peoples into a broad
historiographical context, and argues for the modernity, pluralism, and
long-term contributions of Mongolian rule to the political, cultural and
military development of Early Modern Europe, Islam, and China.