Genghis Khan and the Making of the Moder

Excellent research. Very well written.

Very well written history of a lesser know time in history. Valuable lessons even for today.

Read the history of Mongols for first time,so cannot compare this book with any other on the same subject. Nevertheless this book has covered the evolution ,rise and fall of Mongols substantially covering pretty much every single prominent events of Mongols.Book helps us understand deeply about Genghis Khan.It helps us understand that Genghis Khan was more than a steppe hearder and that he was a genius and a man with astute sense of statesmanship .Book also makes it clear that Genghis Khan along with his Mongol hordes were not uncivilized barbarians but a grp of ppl who did everything with a specific purpose.The military prowess and warfare strategy was just awesome and how Genghis got allegiance from his men.Their secular attitude is surprising since all the contemporary rulers were ruling with religion card,hence the assimilation Mongols brought about in their empire is noteworthy.And the final art of creating a metropolis in China by Khublai Khan showed the excellence of Mongol rule.Also how Mongols touched upon every aspect of contemporary developments and finally was the catalyst for European Renaissance,age of exploration and finally Industrial Revolution.All in all a must read book.Go for it.

The level of storytelling is off the charts! Amazing insights.

Must buy

This book about Genghis Khan is a well-researched book. It is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 is about Genghis Khan's rise to power. This part tells how he became "The Genghis Khan" from an ordinary boy who was a slave for some time and was living an impoverished life. Part 2 is about the Mongol world war which lasted about 5 decades. And part3 is about what effects of the Genghis Khan's conquest had on the wold. All in all, it is a great read to know everything about Genghis Khan.

This is one of those seldom masterpieces that feed the reader’s longing to not only read the text but experience the literary work itself.This book is actual history written in such a lucid manner as if an adventure novel, the reading is so comprehensive and yet so light.You can read it as a historian, or as a story or as a casual read.And it story itself is so incredible that it seems to be fiction.Brilliant work.

Interesting work, but it picks up only in the final few chapters. The sources from which the narrative is derived are at best speculative, and therefore, the work cannot be called a history in the strict sense of the discipline. The narrative becomes more authentic from the period of Kublai Khan onwards. Not for strict scholarship, but provides good insight into the life of the elusive Mongols and the influence they had on the shaping of the political geography of Asia and Eastern Europe.

O autor viveu +5 anos com diferentes tribos nas terras que pertenceram ao vasto imperio que Genghis Khan construiu. Dificilima tarefa para resgatar o que a inveja e a ignorancia , a intolerancia religiosa e racial, desde o seculo XIII, tentou negar e apagar.Temujin era um homem simples, com uma visão incrivel de convivencia das tribos (povos). O unico conquistador da historia que não invadia, matava, se apossava de terras e povos para obter poder e riqueza, mas para unificar os povos em torno de uma vida simples e plena. Sua grande inteligencia e raciocinio simples, sem ganancia, medo, convenções, formaram o melhor, mais disciplinado e eficiente exercito que em menos de 20 anos, unificaram todas as tribos do leste, oeste, e sul da Asia, chegando à Europa (Polonia, Bulgaria, Hungria, Russia,...).Foi em seu imperio que pela primeira vez, o mundo sob seu dominio, conheceu a tolerancia religiosa e racial. Surgiram os salarios para medicos, professores e artesaos. "Escravos" tinham salarios e podiam ter carreiras, criaram-se leis comerciais e trading (globalização), papel moeda circulante a todo povo, escolas publicas, correios, courier, e uma infinidade de coisas qye temos por garantido, mas que a educação e cultura ocidental, sempre negou, omitiu ou jamais se preocupou em creditar!

By reading this book, I love even more ancient Mongolian history. Even I dreamt (I'm not kidding or exaggerating) about one of the sons of Temujin.

The Mongol empire is a fascinating historical topic that is largely neglected and misunderstood in mainstream Western education. In this book Weatherford does a great job showing the critical role that the empire played in the development of the modern world. His writing style is clear, well-organised and entertaining, and he ties the events together in a way that gives the reader a real sense of history.

Dieses Buch wurde im Buch Tools of the Titans von Tim Ferris erwähnt, und ich bin froh es gelesen zu haben.

Well written book, interesting history of Genghis Khan and later Mongol Empires. Much more nuanced and detailed than the usual stereotypes of the mongol hordes. Could have done without the introductory chapter about all the people the author knows and met, but main content is excellent.