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ejrathke 's review for:
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
This is a good companion piece to the history of the Silk Road that I recently read. Both work as a counterpoint to a lot of history we learn in the west that teaches how Europe was and has always been the center of the world.
Weatherford kind of glosses over the terrible things done by the Mongols, in an effort, I think, to give the otherside of history. Mongolia and Genghis Khan are always deemed to be savages, ruthless, lawless, and without cultural merit. While that's obviously untrue, Weatherford maybe falls too far on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Even so, the book is fascinating, entertaining, and just plain interesting. But, yeah, great stuff full of a lot of things most casual observers of history probably don't know about Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
Weatherford kind of glosses over the terrible things done by the Mongols, in an effort, I think, to give the otherside of history. Mongolia and Genghis Khan are always deemed to be savages, ruthless, lawless, and without cultural merit. While that's obviously untrue, Weatherford maybe falls too far on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Even so, the book is fascinating, entertaining, and just plain interesting. But, yeah, great stuff full of a lot of things most casual observers of history probably don't know about Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.