Robert Marshall
Author
Language
English
Description
The greatest conquest in history
Genghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander's: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea to the River Danube. How did a band of nomadic herdsmen achieve so much, so fast?
Despite these stunning achievements, many writers dismiss the Mongols as just ferocious barbarians. This bestselling book sets the record straight. The epic starts in 1206 - when Genghis became...
Author
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The origins of this study of rural Japanese decision making lie in my nearly simultaneous discoveries of Niwa Fumio’s fine novel of rural passion and intrigue, The Buddha Tree, and the transactional analysis of social relations and organizations, or, as it is sometimes called, social exchange theory, which was made especially prominent in political science by Olson (1956), in sociology by Blau (1964), and in anthropology by Barth (1966). Thus, this...