JACK WEATHERFORD holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol Nation for writing Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World., He is also the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilizations, and The History of Money. From the Hardcover edition.

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Width	19 mm
Height	203 mm
Length	132 mm
Depth	0.74
Weight	238 gr

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The Magnificent Mongols

The second book on Mongolia by Prof. Weatherford...it is not a sequel to Genghis Khan but makes a logical continuum. Again, absolutely brilliant research and narrative...Prof Weatherford delves into not only the complex web of palace (or should it be ger?) intrigues, incestuous and bloody fights, overarching ambitions, and geopolitics...but, mainly, it is about the rise of the women in the Borijin (and not quite so Borijin) clan of the Mongols...how women took to power in an attempt to save i...

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Feb, 2012

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