In the last decade interest in the Mongol Empire has grown and the availability of materials in English has increased substantially. The historiography of the Mongol Empire is flourishing.

The Mongol Empire

Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge, 1997).

Allsen, Thomas T. Mongol Imperialism: The Policies of the Grand Qan Mongke in China, Russia, and the Islamic Lands, 1251-1259 (Berkeley, 1987).

Amitai-Preiss, Reuven, and David Morgan, eds., The Mongol Empire and its Legacy (Leiden, 1999).

Fletcher, Joseph F. The Mongols: Ecological and Social Perspectives, in Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia, B. F. Manz, ed., (Aldershot, 1995). Important article on the imperial era, appeared first in Harvard Journal Asian Studies (HJAS), (46), 11-50.

Jackson, Peter, The State of Research: The Mongol Empire, 1986-1999, Journal of Medieval History (2000), 26:189-210.

Morgan, David O. The Mongols (Oxford, 1986) ~ available in paperback.

Saunders, John J., The History of the Mongols Conquests (London, 1971; reprint, Philadelphia, 2001).

Genghis Khan

Chambers, James, Genghis Khan (Gloucestershire, 1999) ~ Pocket biography, good brief introduction.

Hartog, Leo de. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World (London. 1989)

Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror, tr. J.A. Boyle (University of Washington Press, 1997)

Onon, Urgunge. The History and the Life of Chinggis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols (Leiden, 1990)

Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan, His Life and Legacy (Oxford, 1991)

Successor States

Cambridge History of China, vol 6: Alien Regimes and Border States 907-1368, ed. Herbert Franke and Denis Twichett (1994)

Chambers, James. The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe (London, 1988) Well-known narrative of the Mongols in Europe.

Halperin, Charles J. Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History (Bloomington, 1985).

Jackson, Peter. The Mongols and Europe, The New Cambridge Medieval History (Cambridge, 1999) vol. 5, 703-19.

Manz, Beatrice Forbes. The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane (Cambridge, 1989).

Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia, 980-1584 (Cambridge, 1995). See relevant sections on impact of conquest and the "Tartar Yoke."

Morgan, David O. Medieval Persia 1040-1797 (London, 1988). See relevant sections for information on the Ilkhans.

Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan His Life and Times (Boulder, CO,1988/1999) ~ available in paperback Also accessible in full text online, check your library for access to NetLibrary, an online ebook reader.

Travelers and their narratives

Dawson, Christopher. The Mongol Mission; Narratives and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in Mongolia and China in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century (New York, 1955)- * Mission to Asia.

De Rachewiltz, Igor. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans (London, 1971).

Dunn, Ross E. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century (London, 1986).

Morgan, David O. Ibn Battuta and the Mongols, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2001), 11:1-11. ~ Available online for moderate fee, go to http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ and follow links.

Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World (New Haven, 1999).

Wood, Frances. Did Marco Polo go to China? (London, 1995).

The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mongke, 1253-1255, translated by Peter Jackson; introduction, notes, and appendices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan (London, 1990).  
 

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