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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World (original 2021; edition 2021)

by Marie Favereau (Auteur)

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"The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring imprint on politics and society in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East"--… (more)
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Title:The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Authors:Marie Favereau (Auteur)
Info:Harvard University Press (2021), 384 pages
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3.5, this sort of dense history is usually one of my favorites, but either I'm just not familiar enough with this topic to give things context or there is a layer of explanation missing from this book that I typically find in similar histories. The introduction and epilogue were the best parts in connecting this history to more familiar ideas and people. Also, Jan-gus? Can we get a footnote about how I've been pronouncing that wrong? I did like the bits where we zoomed in on specific figures and saw how open minded they were. Certainly a different story than we are usually sold. ( )
  KallieGrace | Aug 9, 2024 |
Only read first 100 pages, so i can't really review it. Didn't get me where i wanted to go.... certainly an appreciation of the virtues of the Mongol way and a counteractive to long held negative perceptions, but i got bogged down in the specific moves- both geographically and family lineage. Not a criticism, just now what i was looking for.
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
A sweeping, epic history of the Ulus Jochi, or Golden Horde: one of the successor khanates which emerged out of the Mongol Empire in the mid-thirteenth century and survived into the mid-sixteenth century. In The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, Marie Favereau marshals an impressive array of sources to make the case that the achievements of the Golden Horde have often been misunderstood or discounted by later historians, trained as they were to think of sedentary agriculture and urbanism as both economically and morally superior to nomadic empires. The various Mongol states were thus, to this world view, simply temporary waves of violent invasion breaking west across the steppes, the Mongols "mere pirates of the land." Favereau argues instead both for the Jochids as skilled and flexible administrators of empire, and for the Horde as exercising a profound legacy across a great swathe of Eurasia.

I found the earlier chapters of the book, where Favereau concentrates more on the big-picture socio-cultural history, to be more engaging than the latter part, where it transitions into a more conventional political/military account. Still, a fascinating read and one with much to offer to those interested in medieval history or the history of empire. ( )
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Les conquêtes initiées par Gengis Khan au XIIIe siècle permirent aux Mongols d'intégrer à leur empire le monde qui les entourait. Ce livre se concentre sur la Horde : un modèle social et économique inédit qui allait s'imposer et évoluer durant trois siècles pour unifier sous son égide un espace divisé aujourd'hui entre le Kazakhstan, l'Ukraine, la Russie et l'Europe de l'Est. Dans cet espace, le « peuple des steppes » créa des institutions qui transformèrent les rapports de force entre les hiérarchies locales et stimulèrent l'essor des villes. Ils œuvrèrent à l'épanouissement de l'économie et, grâce à leur diplomatie orientée vers le commerce, leur influence s'étendit le long des routes du nord bien au-delà de ses frontières. Leurs khans dominèrent les princes russes et les begs turcs, résistèrent à la grande peste et s'adaptèrent à la géopolitique mouvante du XVe siècle. Ce grand livre met en lumière le rôle historique des nomades longtemps réduit au cliché de l'envahisseur pillant les richesses et saccageant les récoltes. En rupture avec la vision conventionnelle de l'Empire mongol, l'auteur montre que la Horde sut mettre en place une administration mobile et sophistiquée, capable de faire cohabiter les communautés religieuses dans leur diversité. Les Mongols remodelèrent en profondeur l'espace slave, contribuèrent à l'épanouissement de l'Islam et forgèrent de nouvelles alliances avec les Mamluks, les Lituaniens, les Polonais, les Italiens et les Allemands. Ils sont à l'origine de l'une des premières mondialisations. Une fresque d'envergure portée de bout en bout par une plume fluide.
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