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Gengis Khan et les dynasties mongoles
Jack Weatherford
- Points
- Points Histoire
- 10 Mai 2024
- 9791041413683
De conquête en conquête, entre la fin du XIIe et le début du XIIIe siècle, Gengis Khan et les Mongols s'emparent d'un territoire gigantesque, sans équivalent. L'armée mongole fait de la guerre une affaire mondiale, les cavaliers issus des steppes assujettissant aussi bien les royaumes de Chine que les régions d'Asie centrale. À sa mort en 1277, le Grand Khan laisse un empire aux bases solides que ses descendants vont continuer d'agrandir durant un siècle et demi.
Au-delà de la maîtrise de la guerre, y compris par la terreur, l'héritage de cet empire nomade et de son fondateur est immense : il réalise la toute première unification du monde par son centre. C'est à comprendre la construction de cet ensemble unique que Jack Weatherford convie le lecteur, avec un sens du récit captivant.
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Ce que nous devons aux Indiens d'Amérique et comment ils ont transformé le monde
Jack Weatherford
- Albin Michel
- Espaces Libres ; Terre Indienne
- 5 Mai 2021
- 9782226454508
La contribution des peuples amérindiens à notre histoire collective est inestimable. Techniques agricoles et nouvelles habitudes alimentaires (plus de la moitié des aliments consommés aujourd'hui viennent des Amériques), modes de gouvernement et pharmacologie moderne (dont l'usage de la quinine et de l'aspirine), développement économique et systèmes de pensée (ne serait-ce que par l'inspiration que Montesquieu, Rousseau et Marx ont puisée dans les sociétés indiennes) : ce livre fondamental, en dévoilant tout ce qu'ils nous ont apporté, bouleverse notre vision du monde et nous rappelle, plus de cinq siècles après Christophe Colomb, que l'Amérique reste à découvrir.Professeur d'anthropologie, Jack Weatherford a enseigné à l'université de Californie à San Diego, l'université Duke et l'université de Caroline du Sud.
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GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
Jack Weatherford
- Broadway Books
- 22 Mars 2005
- 9780609809648
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.
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INDIAN GIVERS - HOW NATIVE AMERICANS TRANSFORMED THE WORLD
Jack Weatherford
- Broadway Books
- 3 Août 2010
- 9780307717153
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." -- Washington Post After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.
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A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan ( Enticing . . . hard to put down.--Associated Press The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their fathers conquests into the first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean.
Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section about the queens from the -
EMPEROR OF THE SEAS ; KUBLAI KHAN AND THE MAKING OF CHINA
Jack Weatherford
- BLOOMSBURY
- 26 Septembre 2024
- 9781399417730
Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immersion in Mongol culture and tradition, Emperor of the Seas brings this little-known story vibrantly to life.
Kublai Khan is one of history''s most fascinating characters. He brought Islamic mathematicians to his court, where they invented modern cartography and celestial measurement. He transformed the world''s largest land mass into a unified, diverse and economically progressive empire, introducing paper money. And, after bitter early setbacks, he transformed China into an outward looking sea-faring empire.
By the end of his reign, the Chinese were building and supplying remarkable ships to transport men, grain, and weapons over vast distances, of a size and dexterity that would be inconceivable in Europe for hundreds of years. Khan had come to a brilliant realization: control the sea, and you control everything.
A master storyteller with an unparalleled grasp of Mongol sources, Jack Weatherford shows how Chinese naval hegemony changed the world forever - revolutionizing world commerce and transforming tastes as far away as England and France.>
