Includes bibliographical references and index. Published in conjunction with an exhibition which is first appearing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Feb.-Sept. 2009. Originally published: [Media, Pa.] : Dino Don : Mongolian Preservation Foundation ; [Washington, D.C.] : Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution ; [Seattle] : Distributed by University of Washington Press, [2009].
Contents:
Mongolia : heartland of Asia / by James Bosson -- Mongolia : ancient hearth of Central Asia / by Steven B. Young -- Tree rings, climate history, and Genghis Khan / by Gordon C. Jacoby -- Masters of the steppe : peoples of Mongolia / by David Sneath -- Mongolian shamanism : the mosaic of performed memory / by Manduhai Buyandelger -- Sounds from nature : music of the Mongols / by Peter K. Marsh -- Precursor to empire : early cultures and prehistoric peoples / by William Honeychurch, William W. Fitzhugh, and Chunag Amartuvshin -- Empire building before the Mongols : legacies of the Türks and Uyghurs / by Jonathan K. Skaff and William Honeychurch -- Genghis Khan emerges : power and polity on the steppe / by Isenbike Togan -- Genghis Khan / by Morris Rossabi -- Mongol women / by Morris Rossabi -- "All the Khan's horses" / by Morris Rossabi -- Introduction to "The secret history of the Mongols" / by Paul Kahn -- Rule by divine right / by Shagdaryn Bira -- Ancient cities of the steppe / by J. Daniel Rogers -- Searching for Genghis : excavations of the ruins at Avraga / by Noriyuki Shiraishi -- The crossroads in Khara Khorum : excavations at the center of the Mongol empire / by Ulambayar Erdenebat and Ernst Pohl -- The search for Khara Khorum and the palace of the Great Khan / by Hans-Georg Hüttel -- John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck / by David Morgan -- Xi Xia : the first Mongol conquest / by Ruth W. Dunnell -- The Mongolian western empire / by David Morgan -- Rashid al-Din / by David Morgan -- The Golden Horde and Russia / by Daniel C. Waugh -- Conquerors and craftsmen : archaeology of the Golden Horde / by Mark G. Kramarovsky -- The Mongols at war / by Timothy May -- The vision in the dream : Kublai Khan and the conquest of China / by Morris Rossabi -- Emissaries, East and West : Rabban Sauma and Marco Polo / by Morris Rossabi -- Ibn Battuta / by Ross E. Dunn -- The Yuan synthesis : Chinese influence on the Mongol culture (1271-1368) / by François Louis -- Chinese influence on Iranian art in the Mongol empire / by Willem J. Vogelsang -- A marriage of convenience : Goryeo-Mongol relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / by George L. Kallander -- The lost fleet of Kublai Khan : Mongol invasions of Japan / by James P. Delgado, Randall J. Sasaki and Kenzo Hayashida -- Forensics in the Gobi : the mummies of Hets Mountain Cave / by Bruno Frohlich ... [et al.] -- Cave burials of Mongolia / by Ulambayar Erdenebat -- Mongolia from empire to republic, 1400 to 1921 / by Pamela K. Crossley -- Buddhism in Mongolia / by Shagdaryn Bira -- Genetic legacy of Genghis Khan / by Theodore G. Schurr -- I conquer like a barbarian! : Genghis Khan in the western popular imagination / by Peter K. Marsh and Myagmar Saruul-Erdene -- Today's Genghis Khan : from hero to outcast to hero again / by Nomin Lkhagvasuren.
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