Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire
By: edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi, William Honeychurch
Contributors: Houston Museum of Natural Science
Publisher: Dino Don; Mongolian Preservation Foundation; Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution; Distributed by University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Media, PA]; [Washington, D.C.]; [Seattle]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780295989570
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition which is first appearing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Feb.-Sept. 2009.

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