Full name: Storm from the East: From Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan

Author: Robert Marshall Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780563363385 9780520083004 056336338X 0520083008

While Europe was still divided into a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of Asia. It had been forged under the banner of one of the greatest generals in history, Genghis Khan, and ruled by men who, a generation before, had been simple nomadic tribesmen. Accompanying a BBC2 series, this book traces the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, describing the great storm that revolutionized the trade of goods and ideas in the medieval world and shattered the Euro-centric view of science and culture. The Mongols introduced the first international currency, built and projected vast highways across the Asian grasslands, and carved out the major political groups of modern Asia. The book gives an essentially Eastern view of these first important contacts between the Orient and the Occident. The author's other books include "All the King's Men", "Shadow Makers" and "In the Sewers of Lvov". Similar books: Civilization by Roger Osborne The Mongols by David Morgan Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Devil's Horsemen by James Chambers Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb Civilization on Trial by Arnold J. Toynbee The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Civilization in the West by Mark Kishlansky Cities and Civilisations by Christopher Hibbert A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer