Reading List: The Mongols

Books:
1. Morgan, David. The Mongols. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1990.

2. Kahn, Paul. The Secret History of the Mongols: the Origin of Chingis Khan. Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 1998.

3. Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan, His Life and Times. University of California Press, 1988.

4. Al-Din, Rasid. The Successors of Genghis Khan. Trans. J.A. Boyle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

5. Grousset, Rene. The Empire of the Steppes: a History of Central Asia. Translated by Naomi Walford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

6. Ruysbroek, Willem van. The mission of Friar William of Rubruck : his journey to the court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255. Translated by Peter Jackson; Hakluyt Society, 1990.

7. May, Timothy. The Mongol Art of War: Chinggis Khan and the Mongol military system. Yardley, Penn.: Westholme Publishing, 2007.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
1. Jackson, Peter. "The Crisis in the Holy Land in 1260". The English Historical Review, Vol. 95, No. 376 (Jul., 1980), pp. 481-513. Deals with the Mongols in the Holy Land.

2. Kaszuba, Sophia. "Wounds in Medieval Mongol Warfare: Their Nature and Treatment in the Secret History, with some notes on the Mongolian Military Medicine and Hygiene." Mongolian Studies XIIX (1996), 59-67.

3. Elverskog, Johan "The Story of Zhu and the Mongols of the Seventeenth Century", in Sarah Schneewind (ed). Long Live the Emperor: Uses of the Ming Founder across Six Centuries of East Asian History (Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008), pp. 211-244.

4. Conlan, Thomas, D. "Myth, Memory and The Mongol Invasions of Japan", in Reinventing the
Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture. Chicago: The Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago and Art Media Resources, Inc., 2008

Websites:
The scrolls of the Mongol invasion are featured on the following website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/mongol-scrolls/

Online Bibliographies

This will be an ongoing updated list of online bibliographies for diverse topics, as and when I come across them, again courtesy of H-Net Asia.

1. Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religions