The Mongols (Pocket)
avMorris Rossabi
ISBN: 9780199840892 - UTGIVEN: 2012-04-01The Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south in the thirteenth century. Along with their leader Chinggis Khan they conjure up images of plunder and total destruction. Although this book does [...]
Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (Övrig)
avMorris Rossabi
ISBN: 9780520244191 - UTGIVEN: 2005-04-01Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies - including the International Monetary Fund, the Wor[...]
Khubilai Khan (Pocket)
avMorris Rossabi
ISBN: 9780520261327 - UTGIVEN: 2009-11Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new[...]
Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West (Övrig)
avMorris Rossabi
ISBN: 9780520262379 - UTGIVEN: 2010-02-01Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad - the first[...]
