The Mongols and Global History

The Mongols and Global History by Morris Rossabi

An accessible, documents-based introduction to the history of the Mongols.

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 the Mongols and charts their invasions and subsequent rule over the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Following is a rich collection of primary sources translated into English from Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Franco-Italian, Italian, Korean, Latin, Persian, Russian, Syriac, and Tibetan that will give students a clear sense of the extraordinary geographic and linguistic range of the Mongol Empire as well as insight into the empire's rise, how it governed, and how it fell. Each primary source includes a headnote and study questions. The volume ends with a list of further readings.

About the series: The Norton Casebooks in History provide students with everything they need for in-depth study of select topics in major periods studied in American and world history. Each volume consists of an introductory essay by the editor on the topic, primary sources, and recent essays by historians that explore different interpretations. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the topic to life for students.

BOOK DETAILS
Paperback
November 2010
ISBN 978-0-393-92711-5
202 pages

Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Map of Mongol Campaigns and Conquest
Genealogical Charts of the Four Major Khanates

PART II: MONGOL LIFESTYLE

Grigor of Akanc, History of the Nation of the Archers
John of Plano Carpini, Mission to Asia
Marignolli's Recollections of Eastern Travel
Kirakos of Ganjak, On the Mongols

PART III: LIFE AND CONQUESTS OF CHINGGIS KHAN

The Secret History of the Mongols
Rashid al-Din, Compendium of Chronicles
The Secret History of the Mongols
Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
Rashid al-Din, Compendium of Chronicles
Changchun, The Travels of an Alchemist

PART IV: EXPANSION OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE

The Chronicle of Novgorod
Grigor of Akanc, History of the Nation of the Archers
Marco Polo, The Description of the World
Rashid al-Din, Compendium of Chronicles
Baybars I of Egypt
The Letter of the Great Khan Güyüg to Pope Innocent IV

PART V: MONGOL RULE

Rashid al-Din, Compendium of Chronicles
Marco Polo, The Description of the World
Anonymous, Portrait of Khubilai Khan (visual source)
Liu Guandao, Khubilai Khan on a Hunt (visual source)
Yuanshi
Chŏng In-ji, Koryŏ sa
'Phags-pa lama, Prince Jin-gim's Textbook of Tibetan Buddhism
Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Cathay and the Way Thither
Marco Polo, The Description of the World
Zhou Daguan, A Record of Cambodia
E. A. Wallis Budge, The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China

PART VI: COLLAPSE OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE

Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror
Rashid al-Din, The Successors of Genghis Khan

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CREDITS

INDEX