![]() “A wonderful book… Suffice to say that in their politics, administration, family lives and, yes, their warfare, the Mongols were far more complicated than we think. “Fascinating… The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world… An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book that will be welcomed by historians of the Mongol Empire. Favereau, a French specialist on nomadic empires, achieves the exceptional feat of writing about this era in a way that is accessible to general readers as well as scholarly. “In medieval European times, the Mongols ruled a vast area of the Eurasian landmass stretching as far to the west as modern Ukraine. ![]() “The Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity… The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend. “Terrific-a really important reassessment of the origins of one of the great empires in history. ![]()
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