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The Mongols and Global History
The volume opens with a brief original essay by Morris Rossabi, one of the world’s foremost scholars on the Mongols. Rossabi’s essay gives a historical and interpretive overview of …
Khubilai Khan
Living 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 …
Modern Mongolia
Land-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 …
China Among Equals
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the …
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise …
Voyager from Xanadu
Toward 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 …
The return of geopolitics : a global quest for the right side of history
It wasn't so long ago that a notion gained currency suggesting we had reached the end of history, that humanity's sociocultural evolution had advanced to a point beyond which it …
From Ming to Ch'ing
The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s were of crucial importance in the late history of China. But because traditional Chinese …
A Mission to the Medieval Middle East
Bertrandon de la Broquiere was esquire to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Philip had plans for a new Crusade to the Holy Land and as part of this plan he persuaded Bertrandon to …
On the Shores of the Caspian
Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin James Brant, the British …
Multicultural China
With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, …
A History of China
Discover the complexity of China’s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of …