Chinggis Khan: World Conqueror (Library of World Biographies) - Softcover

Dunnell, Ruth

 
9780321276339: Chinggis Khan: World Conqueror (Library of World Biographies)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

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