The secret history of the Mongol queens / Weatherford, J. McIver

A comprehensive history of the women who ruled the Mongol empire during the thirteenth century, focusing on Queen Manduhai, the daughter of Genghis Khan, who restored the Mongol Empire and spent her life fighting both the Ming Dynasty of China and Muslim warlords.

Presents a history of the ruling women of the thirteenth-century Mongol Empire, describing their struggles to preserve a sovereignty that would dominate the world for 150 years.