The Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the first appearance of Chinggis Khan’s armies in 1221 down to the death of Tamerlane (1405) and the battle of Tannenberg (1410). This book considers the Mongols as allies as well as conquerors;...(展开全部)

The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol military campaigns on other countries and peoples in China, Russia, Persia and Europe Assesses the astonishing military c...(展开全部)

The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol military campaigns on other countries and peoples in China, Russia, Persia and Europe Assesses the astonishing military c...(展开全部)

作者 米夏埃尔·比尔冈，毕业于康涅狄格大学，Weekly Reader杂志编辑，自由撰稿人。著有Buddhist Faith in America、Cold War, Colonial and Revolutionary Times等作品。 译者 温海清，复旦大学历史系 副教授，主要研究方向为蒙元史。 历史顾问 艾骛德（Christopher P. Atwood），美国印第安纳大学中央欧亚研究系系主任、教授，主要研究方向为蒙古史。艾骛德教授是美国享有国际声誉的第一流蒙古学专家，曾因学术贡献获得蒙古国北极星勋章。

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and in...(展开全部)

布赖恩•莱瓦克， 1965年获得福特汉姆大学的学士学位，1970年获得耶鲁大学的哲学博士学位。1969年加入德克萨斯州大学奥斯汀分校的历史系，现为该校历史学终身校董事讲席教授。作为数届教学奖得主，莱瓦克讲授多门课程，诸如英国、欧洲历史、法制史、巫术史。八年的系主任生涯对他而言是一项有价值但充满挑战性的工作，这使他难以如其所愿投入大量时间在他的教学和学术方面。他的著作包括《英格兰民事律师，1603-1641年：一份政治研究》（The Civil Lawyers in England,1603-1641: A Political Study，1973）、《英国的形成：英格兰、苏格兰和联合王国，1603-1707年》（The Formation of the British State: England, Scotland and the Union, 1...(展开全部)