It was a network that connected the circuits of the Baltic, the Volga, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in a single system that was further linked to the already established network among China, Central Asia and the Middle East. The Horde : how the Mongols changed the world (Harvard, 2021) Marie Favereau Doumenjou is a French historian and writer. Favereau draws particular attention to the fact that Jochid influence on Russia derived from its innovative trade policies, which helped create the “largest integrated market in pre-modern history”. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment. Book: The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World Author: Marie Favereau Publisher: Belknap Price : 23.95 For those following the new revisionist historiography of the Mongols in general or the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) in particular, The Horde is an exciting new addition to a rich pool of contemporary scholarship in the field. She has been a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a research associate at the University of Oxford for the major project Nomadic Empires. The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. They dominated Eurasian continental trade and, in the process, entwined the fates of Russia with Central Asia. Marie Favereau is Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University. In effect, the Jochids were able to carefully calibrate relations with other descendants of Chinggis and maintain stability and safeguard the key cities and trade routes between the Aral Sea and the Black Sea.

Favereau deploys the term, “Mongol Exchange”, in place of what is usually described as Pax Mongolica or the regime of unfettered trade that the Mongols sustained through their control of the overland trade networks stretching from Iberia to China. In The Horde, an ambitiously revisionist account of the Mongol Empire, Favereau presents the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century conquerors of the steppe as sophisticated stewards of globalism. What then was the transformational world-historical aspect of Jochid rule? There are two critical aspects to this phenomenon and both are related to trade.

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