The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World.

• Date: 01 December 2022
• Author: Linantud, John
• Published date: 01 December 2022
• Author: Linantud, John

Favereau, Marie. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2021. 377 pages. Hardcover, $29.95

It has been years since scholars gained better access to Mongolia, and since geneticists made fantastic claims about Chinggis Khan's progeny. Battlefield reports from Ukraine, moreover, recall the trope that explains Russian brutality as a legacy of Russia's historical vassalage to the Mongols. These factors provide context to The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, the latest book by French historian Marie Favereau. Her general mandate is to augment and replace "dramatic and reassuringly familiar" narratives of war and conquest with new knowledge of the Golden Horde, one of four Mongol realms to form after the death of Chinggis Khan in 1227 (p. 30). By 1300, the Horde reigned over most of today's western Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea. The Ilkhanids, Chagatayids, and Great Khans...