The Modern History of Mongolia

Charles R. Bawden

ISBN 10: 0710308000 / ISBN 13: 9780710308009

Published by Kegan Paul Okt 2004, 2004

About this Item

Neuware - Charles Bawden was the first writer to chronicle in English the history of Mongolia from the colonial period to modern times, linking the story of Ghengis Khan's Mongol Empire with the present-day Mongolian People's Republic. Bawden shows how a feeling of cultural unity amongst the Mongolian people, buttressed by their acceptance of Tibetan style lamaism (the 'Yellow Faith') served to ensure their survival as a distinct entity even after their integration into the Manchu empire of China in the sixteenth century. In more recent times the Soviet Union has sought to preserve the existence of Mongolia as a buffer state on its border with China and has presided over the transformation of a society of nomadic herdsman into a centrally-controlled socialist state.

Seller Inventory # 9780710308009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern History of Mongolia
• Publisher: Kegan Paul Okt 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710308000
• ISBN 13: 9780710308009
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 138H x 32D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 138 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 742 grams

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 2004. The Mongols are one of the great peoples in the history of High Asia. Their name has been familiar over the whole of the old world for close on eight hundred years. Yet at the most generous estimate it would be anachronistic to speak of a Mongol state, in the modern sense of the word, as existing before the end of 1911. The imperial adventure under Genghis Khan and his successors left the Mongols exhausted and disunited politically, and in the seventeenth century they fell, piecemeal, under Manchu domination which continued for over two hundred years. This study looks at the Mongol society as it was during the comparatively static two centuries between the final submission to the Manchus in 1691 and the national revolution of 1911. The second part of the book describes the dynamic course of events since that revolution and more especially since the second, Soviet-inspired, revolution which began in 1921.

About the Author

Charles R. Bawden