Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION T O THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PROLOGUE, PART ONE-JENGHIZ KHAN, PART TWO-THE MONGOL EMPIRE, PART THREE-THE THREE REALMS, PART FOUR-TAMERLANE, PART FIVE-THE HERITAGE, EPILOGUE-THE KEY OF ASIA, GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE JENGHIZIDES, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, PRINCIPAL PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK, BIBliOGRAPHY, Index

About the Author

Michael Prawdin was born in the Ukraine in 1884. He studied in Germany and was a literary critic. His many books include Gengis Kan - El Conquistador de Asia, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse. Gerard Chaliand is professor, Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Paris, professor, College Interarmee de Defense, Paris, and director of The European Center for the Study of Conflicts, Paris. He is a world-renowned specialist of conflicts, strategic problems, guerrillas and terrorism. Among his publications are Nomadic Empires: From Mongolia to the Danube (available from Transaction), and The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas.

Reviews

-[The Mongol Empire] has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting.... The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part.- --Maurice Collis, Time and Tide

"[The Mongol Empire] has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting.... The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part." --Maurice Collis, Time and Tide

"[The Mongol Empire] has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting.... The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part." --Maurice Collis, Time and Tide