Contributor
Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
Imprint:[Media, PA] : Dino Don : Mongolian Preservation Foundation ; [Washington, D.C.] : Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution ; [Seattle] : Distributed by University of Washington Press, [2009]
Description317 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), col. plans ; 28 cm.
Note:Published in conjunction with an exhibition which is first appearing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Feb.-Sept. 2009.
Note:Mongolia : heartland of Asia / James Bosson -- Mongolia : ancient hearth of Central Asia / Steven B. Young -- Tree rings, climate history, and Genghis Khan / Gordon C. Jacoby -- Masters of the steppe : peoples of Mongolia / David Sneath -- Mongolian shamanism : the mosaic of performed memory / Manduhai Buyandelger -- Sounds from nature : music of the Mongols / Peter K. Marsh -- Precursor to empire : early cultures and prehistoric peoples / William Honeychurch, William W. Fitzhugh, and Chunag Amartuvshin -- Empire building before the Mongols : legacies of the Turks and Uyghurs / Jonathan K. Skaff and William Honeychurch -- Genghis Khan emerges : power and polity on the steppe / Isenbike Togan -- Genghis Khan / Morris Rossabi -- Mongol women / Morris Rossabi -- "All the Khan's horses " / Morris Rossabi -- Introduction to "The secret history of the Mongols" / Paul Kahn -- Rule by divine right / Shagdaryn Bira -- Ancient cities of the steppe / J. Daniel Rogers -- Searching for Genghis : excavations of the ruins at Avraga / Noriyuki Shiraishi -- The crossroads in Khara Khorum : excavations at the center of the Mongol empire / Ulambayar Erdenebat and Ernst Pohl -- The search for Khara Khorum and the palace of the Great Khan / Hans-Georg Hüttel -- John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck / David Morgan -- Xi Xia : the first Mongol conquest / Ruth W. Dunnell -- The Mongolian western empire / David Morgan -- Rashid al-Din / David Morgan -- The Golden Horde and Russia / Daniel C. Waugh -- Conquerors and craftsmen : archaeology of the Golden Horde / Mark G. Kramarovsky -- The Mongols at war / Timothy May -- The vision in the dream : Kublai Khan and the conquest of China / Morris Rossabi -- Emissaries, East and West : Rabban Sauma and Marco Polo / Morris Rossabi -- Ibn Battuta / Ross E. Dunn -- The Yuan synthesis : Chinese influence on the Mongol culture (1271-1368) / François Louis -- Chinese influence on Iranian art in the Mongol empire / Willem J. Vogelsang --
Note:A marriage of convenience : Goryeo-Mongol relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / George L. Kallander -- The lost fleet of Kublai Khan : Mongol invasions of Japan / James P. Delgado, Randall J. Sasaki and Kenzo Hayashida -- Forensics in the Gobi : the mummies of Hets Mountain Cave / Bruno Frohlich ... [et al.] -- Cave burials of Mongolia / Ulambayar Erdenebat -- Mongolia from empire to republic, 1400 to 1921 / Pamela K. Crossley -- Buddhism in Mongolia / Shagdaryn Bira -- Genetic legacy of Genghis Khan / Theodore G. Schurr -- I conquer like a barbarian! : Genghis Khan in the western popular imagination / Peter K. Marsh and Myagmar Saruul-Erdene -- Today's Genghis Khan : from hero to outcast to hero again / Nomin Lkhagvasuren.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
