‘Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable’ The Sunday Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Deeply researched and elegantly written – essential reading’ Dan Jones<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed’ Daily Telegraph<\/i><\/p>\n
<\/b>How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages. <\/b><\/p>\n
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As The Mongol Storm<\/i> reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions. <\/p>\n
In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region’s geopolitics. Amid the chaos of the Mongol onslaught, long-standing powers such as the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, and the crusaders struggled to survive, while new players such as the Ottomans arose to fight back. The Mongol conquests forever transformed the region, while forging closer ties among societies spread across Eurasia. <\/p>\n
This is the definitive history of the Mongol assault on the Near East and its enduring global consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Mongols have long been viewed in the West as violent barbarians who plundered and wrecked the societiesthey invaded. But in fact the Mongol Empire was highly sophisticated, and through their conquests they built a new world order. Within the space of a single generation, they swept across the Middle East, tied Europe and Asia together through trade, and completely reshaped global geopolitics. This book tells the story of the Mongols and the empires they conquered. Drawing on years of deep archival research, historian Nicholas Morton traces the rise of the Mongols in the 13th century through their rapid invasions of eight different Middle Eastern societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[75],"product_tag":[1985,1656,960],"class_list":["post-95381","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-history","product_tag-asian-history","product_tag-medieval-history","product_tag-middle-eastern-history","pa_book_author-morton-nicholas","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-950-2-edition23","pa_imprint-basic-books","pa_language-english","pa_pages-9005","pa_publisher-basic-books","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n