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  • Published: 16 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307705471
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire





The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.


The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world’s first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and
creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and the Islamic world.


At the conclusion of his magnificently researched and groundbreaking narrative, Jack Weatherford notes that the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini, and so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.

  • Published: 16 February 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307705471
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the author

Jack Weatherford

Jack Weatherford is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (Crown, 1988, Ballentine 1989 - Fawcett pb sold 178,561 copies) as well as Native Roots (Crown, 1991) Savages and Civilization (Crown 1994) and The History of Money (Crown 1998).

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