OL8162628W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 86.39 Pages 362 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0307237818 Urn:lcp:genghiskhanmaki00jack:epub:22aa2d47-8de4-4e88-938a-b4af82a7078c Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier genghiskhanmaki00jack Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2d80cz4v Isbn 0609610627 Lccn 2003020659 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7585947M Openlibrary_edition Urn:lcp:genghiskhanmaki00jack:lcpdf:e36b3734-6c68-4f80-b0d0-4d89352ef968 Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world / Jack Weatherford. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Afterwards, Khan Batu came to be known as Tsar Batu. Weatherford's account gives a generous view of the Mongol conqueror at his best and worst.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:01:03 Boxid IA171001 Boxid_2 CH107501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st ed. A few short years later, in 1240, the year of the rat, the Mongols attacked Kiev. First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover, 312 pages. portrait of Khan is drawn with sufficiently self-complicating depth. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover) Published March 16th 2004 by Crown. 'Weatherford's lively analysis restores the Mongol's reputation, and it takes wonderful learned detours. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern ageby the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan. 'It's hard to think of anyone else who rose from such inauspicious beginnings to something so awesome, except maybe Jesus.' Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. It shows that he was a great secular leader, among other things.'   It's a fascinating book portraying Genghis Khan in a totally new light. Arguably, however, Genghis Khan and the Mongols were the dominant force that shaped Eurasia and consequently the modern world. But of the few books I've read, my favourite is Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (Crown Publishers, New York). Genghis Khan, the fearsome Mongolian warrior of the 13th century, may have done more than rule the largest empire in the world according to a recently published genetic study, he may have. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Ask anyone who was the person that most influenced world history: few would mention Genghis Khan.  'There is very little time for reading in my new job. For more extended reading, The Secret History of the Mongols is an invaluable resource as the earliest native history of Genghis Khan’s rule, and Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World corrects many Western misconceptions.

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By the end of the Civil War, the hospital had cared for some 76,000 patients. She reported for duty in December 1862.Ī sprawling institution on the outskirts of the city, Chimborazo was reportedly the largest military hospital in the world in the 1860s. Unhappy at home, Pember accepted an invitation to serve at Richmond's Chimborazo Hospital. He died soon after their marriage and by late 1861 she was a childless widow, living with her parents in Marietta, Georgia, where they had fled to escape the ravages of war. Pember apparently received some formal schooling before her 1856 marriage to Bostonian Thomas Pember, who was not Jewish. Exemplifying the way in which wealth enabled some antebellum Jewish families to gain full community acceptance, the Levy family moved among Charleston's elite until a series of financial setbacks sent them to Savannah, Georgia, in the late 1840s. One of Pember's sisters, Eugenia Levy, married lawyer and congressman Philip Phillips, and would later be twice imprisoned for her support of the Confederate cause. The fourth of seven children, she was raised in a wealthy and socially prominent Jewish family her father, Jacob Clavius Levy (son of Moses Levy of Charleston), was a successful merchant, while her mother, Fanny Yates, was the seventh and youngest daughter of Samuel Yates and Martha Abrahams. Pember was born on August 18, 1823, and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She assumed the responsibility informally at the age of 39 and eventually over 15,000 patients came under her direct care during the war.  Phoebe Yates Levy Pember (Aug– March 4, 1913) was a member of a prominent American Jewish family from Charleston, South Carolina, and a nurse and female administrator of Chimborazo Hospital at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War.

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