Chinggis Khan (Library of World Biography Series)
by Dunnell, Ruth W.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-29
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history.
Author Biography
Ruth W. Dunnell is the James P. Storer Professor of Asian History at Kenyon College in Gambler, Ohio.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Persons Mentioned in Text
Chronology
Maps
Introduction: Eurasia in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
Chapter One: Origins of Chinggis Khan: Mongolia in the Twelfth Century
Chapter Two: Education of a Hero, 1160s-1180s
Chapter Three: Making of a Khan, 1180s-1190s
Chapter Four: Uniting the People, 1190s-1205
Chapter Five: Organizing the Empire, 1205-1210
Chapter Six: Opening a Southern Front: The First China Campaigns, 1207-1218
Chapter Seven: To Central Asia and Beyond: From Mongol Khan to World Conqueror, 1218-1223
Chapter Eight: Return to Mongolia: The Last Tangut Campaign and Chinggis Khan's Death, 1224-1227
Chapter Nine: Legacies: The Mongol Empire, Eurasian History and Modern Mongolia
Glossary
Genealogical & Reign Chart
References
Illustrations
Index
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