КОД (ISBN):
9780609809648

Книга: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Товар № 11837278

Автор: Jack, Weatherford

Издательство: Random House (USA)

Вес: 0.450 кг.

Год издания: 2005

Страниц: 352 Переплет: Мягкая обложка

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Dickie Bird reads these outrageous and often hilarious anecdotes as he takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. Flexing his memory, he describes the cricketers, matches and characters of these clubs as well as reliving his journeys as umpire to overseas clubs. The conventional view of Genghis Khan as a ruthless leader who destroyed societies is turned on its head in this New York Times bestseller. Scholar and researcher Jack Weatherford shows how Khan was the first ruler to grant religious freedom and how he instituted diplomatic immunity and outlawed torture. Most significantly, Weatherford demonstrates how Khan was responsible for uniting East and West, laying the foundations for the modern nation-state and global economic systems. This truly is revisionist history at its very best