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The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was…mehr

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The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime―a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility―rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance. The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment.
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Se conoce a los mongoles por una cosa: la conquista. Pero, en realidad, los logros de los mongoles fueron mucho más allá de la guerra. Durante trescientos años, la Horda, la porción occidental del Imperio mongol que surgió tras la muerte de Gengis Kan, influyó tanto en el mundo como lo había hecho Roma, y dejó tras de sí un profundo legado en Europa, Rusia, Asia Central y Oriente Próximo, aún palpable en nuestros días. En la primera historia completa de esta fascinante entidad política, Marie Favereau nos sumerge en uno de los actores de integración transfronteriza más poderosos de la historia mundial. La Horda fue el nodo central del auge comercial euroasiAtico de los siglos xiii y xiv, y vertebró el intercambio de gentes e ideas a través de su extensísimo territorio. Su singular régimen político, con el poder repartido entre el kan y la nobleza, recompensaba a los administradores y diplomAticos hábiles y fomentaba un orden económico móvil, organizado e innovador. Desde su capital en Sarái, en el curso inferior del río Volga, la Horda proporcionó un modelo de gobierno para Rusia, influyó en las costumbres y la estructura estatal de todas las culturas islámicas, difundió sofisticadas teorías científicas y practicó la tolerancia religiosa. La Horda es el retrato definitivo de un imperio incomprendido y demasiado fácilmente olvidado, a pesar de que, como Favereau demuestra, vivimos en un presente heredero del mundo mongol.