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Chinggis Khan, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (September 29, 2009) © 2010

  • Ruth W. Dunnell
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Great addition to any World History, History of China, and History of East Asia courses. 
This new biography on Chinggis Khan examines the life of this perennially fascinating and controversial man within the dynamic social and cultural contexts of the thirteenth-century.

Drawing upon the latest scholarship, Ruth W. Dunnell presents as clear an account as possible of who Chinggis Khan was, where he came from, why and how he pursued his career as a world conqueror, and what it meant to the world then and later.   In these pages readers should gain insight into how the Mongols saw and experienced the world, and the logic of their actions in it.  


Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history. 

Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history. 

Table of Contents

 

Preface

 

Persons Mentioned in Text

 

Chronology

 

Maps

 

Introduction: Eurasia in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries

 

Chapter One: Origins of Chinggis Khan:  Mongolia in the Twelfth Century

 

Chapter Two: Education of a Hero, 1160s-1180s

 

Chapter Three: Making of a Khan, 1180s-1190s

 

Chapter Four: Uniting the People, 1190s-1205

 

Chapter Five: Organizing the Empire, 1205-1210

 

Chapter Six: Opening a Southern Front:  The First China Campaigns, 1207-1218

 

Chapter Seven: To Central Asia and Beyond:  From Mongol Khan to World Conqueror, 1218-1223

 

Chapter Eight: Return to Mongolia: The Last Tangut Campaign and Chinggis Khan's Death, 1224-1227

 

Chapter Nine: Legacies:  The Mongol Empire, Eurasian History and Modern Mongolia

 

 

Glossary

 

Genealogical & Reign Chart

 

References

 

Illustrations

 

Index

 


Ruth W. Dunnell is the James P. Storer Professor of Asian History at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio.  She specializes in the history of China and its Inner Asian neighbors in the 11th to 14th centuries, and has published extensively on one of those neighbors, the Tangut state of Western  Xia (Xi Xia, 1038-1227), in the conquest of which Chinggis Khan met his end.

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