Jack Weatherford
Auteur van Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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Jack Weatherford holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan.
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (1988) — Auteur — 847 exemplaren
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire (2010) — Auteur — 696 exemplaren
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom (2016) 153 exemplaren
Tribes on the Hill: The United States Congress--Rituals and Realities, Revised Edition (1981) 24 exemplaren
Genghis Khan Dhe Krijimi I Botes Moderne 2 exemplaren
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- Weatherford, Jack
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- Weatherford, Jack McIver
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- 1946
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- Ulaan Baator, Mongolia
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- University of South Carolina
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- Macalester College
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- Order of the Pole Star
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- JACK WEATHERFORD has retired from the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol Nation for writing Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. [from the Amazon.com record for Secret History of the Mongol Queens (2010) retrieved 7/15/2025]
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But the rise of Ghengis Khan and his children added many innovations to warfare, governance, and the unification of many ethnic groups, not the least of which were the Chinese and Russians.
Khan’s armies innovated in mobile warfare, the use of canon, and siege engines.
His grandson Kubilei Khan reigned over an age of massive growth of trade, standardization of currency, the invention of diplomatic immunity, even the separation of church and state.
And the expedited trade routes also ultimately became the conduit of pandemic.
The modern world really is a stepchild to the one the Mongols created eight centuries ago.… (meer)