history / asia / general

The first account of the new Taliban-showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors.

"The Mongol Empire was the . . . [largest] land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a . . . century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. [The author] argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organizing forces of world history. His book traces the rise of the Great Khan in 1206 to the dissolution of the empire in 1368 by the Ming Dynasty. He discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes under Chinggis' leadership; the establishment of an . . . imperium whose Pax Mongolica held mastery over the Central Asian steppes; . . . policies of religious pluralism; and the . . . legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran"--Back cover.

Provides an insider's account of the student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, and the Chinese government's refusal to officially acknowledge the event in order to protect the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting.

Examines the effects of the Armenian massacres that occurred from 1915 to 1923, discussing how that incident still resonates and influences their people and government in the present day.