The Mongol Storm, Nicholas Morton
The Mongol Storm, Nicholas Morton
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The Mongol Storm
Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Author: Nicholas Morton

Narrator: Nick Biadon

Unabridged: 12 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/25/2023


Synopsis

How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages

For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions.

In a single generation, the Mongols conquered vast swaths of the Near East and upended the region's geopolitics. Amid the chaos of the Mongol onslaught, long-standing powers such as the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, and the crusaders struggled to survive, while new players such as the Ottomans arose to fight back. The Mongol conquests forever transformed the region, while forging closer ties among societies spread across Eurasia.

This is the definitive history of the Mongol assault on the Near East and its enduring global consequences.

About Nicholas Morton

Nicholas Morton is a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. The author or editor of three books, Morton lives in Nottinghamshire, U.K.


Reviews

Read courtesy of NetGalley. As a Jill-of-all-trades when it comes to history, I feel like "the Mongols" is one of those topics that a lot of people have vague ideas about but don't really know what they're talking about, or any details at all. Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, greatest land empire of all t......more

Great view of the area and how the Mongol arrival set the scene for the major changes that led to a closer version of the region we know today. Moves at a good pace with a sufficient level of detail to cover main points but leaving enough that you want to read further (helps that it is well reference......more

Goodreads review by Zack

This is a good book and an easy read. It is less about the Mongols than it is about the 13th century near East. As Morton’s wonderful conclusion points out: it’s a messy history. Religion was sometimes a motivating factor when forming alliances and fighting wars, but it often wasn’t. Morton is very......more

Goodreads review by Terry

Read courtesy of NetGalley. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton This type of book is actually outside of my normal choice of reading, but I have always been fascinated with the history surround “the Mongols”. My understanding and knowledge mainly......more

Goodreads review by Dan

My thanks to both NetGalley and the publisher Basic Books for an advanced copy of this history tome on Mongol invasion and their effect on history. The Crusades are about as much as students learn about the history of the Middle and Near East, at least that is what I was taught way back when. Even i......more