![]() Only the elevation of what is now China as “ orbis terrarum” or “state-space” and the reduction of Central Eurasia to “dark space,” “barbarian outer darkness,” or “non-state space” can sustain this vision.Ī chapter on archaeology in Mongolia by Ulambayar Erdenebat, Jargalan Burentogtokh, and William Honeychurch is similarly a corrective:Īn overview of scholarship on the Mongolian Empire reveals a puzzling irony. This only shows how fundamentally Sinocentric the conventional historical vision is. Only a Sinocentric view can justify the termination of the Mongol Empire in 1368. He argues that the Mongol Empire survived for centuries after the loss of the Yuan Dynasty in China, which has been the conventional end date of empire: Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene is also key on Mongol “ideas of people, state, and empire”. One of the editors, Michael Hope, has another vital book on political ideology post-Chinggis, seen in terms of an ongoing conflict between “patrimonial” royal rule and a “collegial” tradition of government that has been obscured in most sources. ![]() The pre-Chinggis (Genghis Khan) steppe and the early Mongol state are in the hands of Isenbike Togan, who wrote a classic book on the Chinggis political project, centred on an ideological shift from a “pluralist” to a “universalist” order. ![]() The Mongol World, Timothy May (ed), Michael Hope (ed) (Routledge, May 2022)įorty-six contributors range from established to emerging scholars. Divided into three sections-“Conquests and State Formation”, “The Social History of the Mongol Empire”, and “The Mongol Empire in World History”-and twelve parts, the book offers a thorough treatment of politics and war as well as topics that widen out to encompass the “world” of its title. For the Mongol entry, this is probably true enough. ![]() The series promises “unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage” of an epoch. Routledge Worlds is a series that grants space to subjects that have been shortchanged, such as The Sámi World and The Inuit World. Now Routledge Worlds have given one thousand pages to The Mongol World from the 12th to the 14th century. Despite the scale the Mongols operated on, they have only had scaled-down entries in book series from academic publishers that help to rank areas of history as more or less prestigious. ![]() The Mongol Empire is almost always introduced in terms of size: the biggest land empire, unprecedented in extent. ![]()
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