Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire

This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

List of contents

Editor's Foreword (Jon Woronoff)
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reader's Notes
Maps
Dates of Chinese Dynasties and States
Chronology
Introduction
Topics:
1. Mongolia before Empire (To 1206)
2. Mongol Empire (12061260)
3. Qanate China (12601368)
4. Golden Horde (12351502)
5. Chagatay Qanate and Qaydu (12601338)
6. Ilqanate (12601356)
7. Mongols and the Outside World
THE DICTIONARY
Appendix 1: Mongolian Scripts
Appendix 2: Glossary of Mongolian Words
Appendix 3: Eating at the Qan's Table, Selected Recipes from the Yinshan zhengyao ¿¿¿¿ (1330)
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

Paul D. Buell, is an independent scholar, translator, and editor living in Seattle. He is the author of more than 180 books and articles, He specializes in the institutional and cultural history of the Mongolian Empire, the comparative history of human and veterinary medicine, modern Central Asia.

Francesca Fiaschetti, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, HUJI. She specialized in Sinology and Mongolian Studies and has published various articles on diplomacy in East Asia under Mongol rule, the political ideology of the Yuan dynasty, and representations of identity and ethnicity in East Asia.

Summary

This second edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Buell, Paul D. Buell, Paul D. Fiaschetti Buell, Paul D./ Fiaschetti Buell, Buell Paul D., Francesca Fiaschetti
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781538111369
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1136-9
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras; Historical Dictionaries of Anc; Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, Reference works, Asian History, Mongol Empire