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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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Weatherford, Jack
- Officiële naam
- Weatherford, Jack McIver
- Geboortedatum
- 1946
- Geslacht
- male
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- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Ulaan Baator, Mongolia
Ulan Bator, Mongolia - Opleiding
- University of South Carolina
University of California, San Diego - Beroepen
- professor
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- Macalester College
Chinggis Khaan University - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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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I thought the book was well-written and easy to read, and was only after I finished reading it that I realised it's actually almost 15 years old. Although undeniably biased towards the Mongols, it certainly does the job of shedding light on elements of the Mongol story that aren't often the focus of historical accounts, and raises some thought provoking points regarding the some more subtle impacts that Genghis Khan had on the world.
Ultimately, to quote Mr Ollivander, I think Genghis Khan has to be considered 'Terrible, but great'. This book may sway slightly too far in favour of the 'great', but it's good to reminded about that perspective of history in a well articulated read.… (meer)