The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

by Morris Rossabi

Book Overview

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors and predators to wise rulers who devised policies to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019984089X
• ISBN13: 9780199840892
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 6.7"