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Conqueror Of The World
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First published January 1, 1944
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René Grousset
196 books22 followersRené Grousset (September 5, 1885 – September 12, 1952) was a French historian specializing in Asiatic and Oriental history.
He was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885.
Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history he began his distinguished career in the French Ministry of Fine Arts soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925 Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris and secretary of the Journal asiatique. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations. In 1933 he was appointed director of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and curator of its Asiatic art collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Huien Tsang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian buddhist university of Nalanda.
Before the outbreak of World War II, Grousset had published his two most important works, Histoire des Croisades (1934-1936) and L'Empire des Steppes (1939). Dismissed from his museum posts by the Vichy government, he continued his research privately and published three volumes on China and the Mongols during the war. Following the liberation of France, he resumed his curatorship of the Cernuschi Museum and in addition was appointed curator of the Musee Guimet. In 1946, Grousset was made a member of the French Academy. Between 1946 and 1949 he published four final works, concentrating on Asia Minor and the Near East.
-Wikipedia.
He was born in Aubais, Gard in 1885.
Having graduated from the University of Montpellier with a degree in history he began his distinguished career in the French Ministry of Fine Arts soon afterward. He served in the French army during World War I. In 1925 Grousset was appointed adjunct conservator of the Musee Guimet in Paris and secretary of the Journal asiatique. By 1930 he had published five major works on Asiatic and Oriental civilizations. In 1933 he was appointed director of the Cernuschi Museum in Paris and curator of its Asiatic art collections. He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Huien Tsang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian buddhist university of Nalanda.
Before the outbreak of World War II, Grousset had published his two most important works, Histoire des Croisades (1934-1936) and L'Empire des Steppes (1939). Dismissed from his museum posts by the Vichy government, he continued his research privately and published three volumes on China and the Mongols during the war. Following the liberation of France, he resumed his curatorship of the Cernuschi Museum and in addition was appointed curator of the Musee Guimet. In 1946, Grousset was made a member of the French Academy. Between 1946 and 1949 he published four final works, concentrating on Asia Minor and the Near East.
-Wikipedia.
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April 21, 2020
"Тайната история на монголите" е написана от неизвестен автор малко след смъртта на Чингис хан и описва живота и завоеванията му в малко или повече стихотворна форма.
Опитите на Рене Грусе да преразкаже тази книга със свои думи и така да се направи, че е написал своя собствена, водят до по голяма скука даже от преразказа, който Кон Игълдън прави на Ксенофон.
Не само, че литературното майсторство на "автора" не е никак голямо, ами и доколкото го има му изневерява до толкова, че голяма част от текста всъщност са просто цитирани пасажи от самата "Тайна история на монголите" в споменатата стихотворна форма.
Иронично, много по-интересен източник на информация за живота на Чингиз е художествената поредица именно на Кон Игълдън по темата.
Опитите на Рене Грусе да преразкаже тази книга със свои думи и така да се направи, че е написал своя собствена, водят до по голяма скука даже от преразказа, който Кон Игълдън прави на Ксенофон.
Не само, че литературното майсторство на "автора" не е никак голямо, ами и доколкото го има му изневерява до толкова, че голяма част от текста всъщност са просто цитирани пасажи от самата "Тайна история на монголите" в споменатата стихотворна форма.
Иронично, много по-интересен източник на информация за живота на Чингиз е художествената поредица именно на Кон Игълдън по темата.
February 28, 2012
Si legge come una veloce calvalcata nell'arida steppa mongola.
Grousset ha scrittura felice capace di restituirci i panorami, la natura, gli uomini di questa terra magnifica chiamata Mongolia.
Un territorio grande cinque volte l'Italia, in gran parte non coltivabile, attualmente abitato da circa 2.800.000 abitanti. Terra ricchissima di materie prime, che oggi fanno gola a tanti purtroppo.
Un unico appunto: la "ricostruzione narrativa dei fatti" della vita del grande condottiero e delle sue conquiste, ci dice Grousset nella sua brevissima introduzione, é fatta sulla base di alcuni testi arrivati sino a noi. Peccato che se ne faccia solo un breve accenno, appunto in questa introduzione, e poi non se ne parli più e tantomeno alla fine del libro si é pensato di mettere una breve bibliografia.
Grousset ha scrittura felice capace di restituirci i panorami, la natura, gli uomini di questa terra magnifica chiamata Mongolia.
Un territorio grande cinque volte l'Italia, in gran parte non coltivabile, attualmente abitato da circa 2.800.000 abitanti. Terra ricchissima di materie prime, che oggi fanno gola a tanti purtroppo.
Un unico appunto: la "ricostruzione narrativa dei fatti" della vita del grande condottiero e delle sue conquiste, ci dice Grousset nella sua brevissima introduzione, é fatta sulla base di alcuni testi arrivati sino a noi. Peccato che se ne faccia solo un breve accenno, appunto in questa introduzione, e poi non se ne parli più e tantomeno alla fine del libro si é pensato di mettere una breve bibliografia.
November 19, 2015
¡Muy interesante!
November 22, 2017
The Writ of Khan"
Genghis Khan never came from a long line of kings and queens. Instead, he was the son of a tribal chieftain who was struggling to keep his head above water. The story of Genghis' ( his given name was Temujin) rise is a long, complicated one, full of battles both won and lost, flights to the forests and mountains of northern Mongolia, and revivals of fortune after strokes of pure luck. In fact, to me, the most amazing thing about Genghis Khan's story is that he actually survived. The odds were certainly against him. Perhaps he was saved by his personality which attracted many men and women towards him. The story of CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD tells how he vanquished various menacing Mongolian tribes across the vast steppes of central Asia, then fought with the Tatars and Kin who ruled China, taking Beijing and much of northern China. At the time, the Silk Road carried a great deal of trade between China and points west. Genghis wanted to tap into this, but the ruler of Khwarezm, a vast Turko-Persian empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran would have none of it. He executed an entire caravan and some envoys. In the resulting war, the Mongols completely devastated the whole region, a disaster from which it never recovered. A few Mongol leaders moved up through Iran into the Caucasus and southern Russia, but then returned east. Genghis died in China at the age of sixty. He had not exactly conquered the world as the title indicates, but his sons and loyal generals would do a pretty good job of it in the coming years.
Grousset was the premier Central Asia/Mongolia scholar of his time. This work is written with numerous snappy titles to the chapters, but the text is full of a huge number of hard-to-remember names, there is no index, and the end paper maps are in French rather than English. The scholarship is probably top notch and the writing clear and interesting, but it's based on a limited amount of material which survived, therefore battles and rivalries are more salient than a more socio-economic view of events. Nevertheless, for someone who wants an unromantic view of the life of Genghis Khan, this is probably your best bet.
Genghis Khan never came from a long line of kings and queens. Instead, he was the son of a tribal chieftain who was struggling to keep his head above water. The story of Genghis' ( his given name was Temujin) rise is a long, complicated one, full of battles both won and lost, flights to the forests and mountains of northern Mongolia, and revivals of fortune after strokes of pure luck. In fact, to me, the most amazing thing about Genghis Khan's story is that he actually survived. The odds were certainly against him. Perhaps he was saved by his personality which attracted many men and women towards him. The story of CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD tells how he vanquished various menacing Mongolian tribes across the vast steppes of central Asia, then fought with the Tatars and Kin who ruled China, taking Beijing and much of northern China. At the time, the Silk Road carried a great deal of trade between China and points west. Genghis wanted to tap into this, but the ruler of Khwarezm, a vast Turko-Persian empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran would have none of it. He executed an entire caravan and some envoys. In the resulting war, the Mongols completely devastated the whole region, a disaster from which it never recovered. A few Mongol leaders moved up through Iran into the Caucasus and southern Russia, but then returned east. Genghis died in China at the age of sixty. He had not exactly conquered the world as the title indicates, but his sons and loyal generals would do a pretty good job of it in the coming years.
Grousset was the premier Central Asia/Mongolia scholar of his time. This work is written with numerous snappy titles to the chapters, but the text is full of a huge number of hard-to-remember names, there is no index, and the end paper maps are in French rather than English. The scholarship is probably top notch and the writing clear and interesting, but it's based on a limited amount of material which survived, therefore battles and rivalries are more salient than a more socio-economic view of events. Nevertheless, for someone who wants an unromantic view of the life of Genghis Khan, this is probably your best bet.
June 23, 2019
Desde la estepa mongola con crueldad y tierno salvajismo se presenta el conquistador del mundo. Primer toda Mongola, unificando tribus y clanes; luego arrasando la civilización; del norte de China, a la antigua Persia, pasando por el poderoso Imperio Corsario y llegando hasta las puertas de Europa. Al galope, el mundo temblaba a su alrededor. Arrasando sin piedad ciudades, enemigos, ejércitos. El basto imperio mongol liderados por un solo hombre, Temuyin, el elegido por el dios Tengri, el Eterno Cielo Azul. No olvidemos su lección, la poderosa fuerza de la barbarie.
November 8, 2020
Максимально историческая книга. Невероятное множество микро фактов, бесконечность монгольских имен и географических названий требуют значительного фокуса, чтобы в один миг не погрязнуть в каше событий, утратив нить. Первую половину книги читать супер тяжело.
December 27, 2017
عام/2016
January 15, 2022
Muchos nombres de personas y lugares, con lo que por momentos me perdía, pero una historia bien narrada. Interesante libro.
May 12, 2022
Great
June 7, 2022
Letto 4 volte, incredibile romanzatura di fatti storici accuratamente ricercati che rendono il lettore avido di leggere e al contempo fornire una veritiera rappresentazione della ascesa del gran khan
January 25, 2012
This is half-history, half-novel. Or history told like a novel; with extracts from the original material - whole pages of speech from The Secret History, for example - and with picturesque chapter names such as 'Misery and Grandeur of the Nomads'; 'The Tears of Chinggis-Khan'; '"You Have Trampled Underfoot the Head of this Dead Man!"'; '"These Evil-Smelling Mongols"'; 'A Note of High Tragedy: Chinggis Khan and Jamuqa'. I quoted those to tempt you.
It's considered 'popular history'. Grousset has written a huge history of the steppe that doesn't have that 'popular' tag, so don't dismiss him. In my humble, you can do a lot lot worse for a biography on Chinggis. What Grousset does here is give you much of the source material for his life, rather simply without too much imposition of his own - and perhaps that is the best way to start. To make up your own mind.
It's considered 'popular history'. Grousset has written a huge history of the steppe that doesn't have that 'popular' tag, so don't dismiss him. In my humble, you can do a lot lot worse for a biography on Chinggis. What Grousset does here is give you much of the source material for his life, rather simply without too much imposition of his own - and perhaps that is the best way to start. To make up your own mind.
January 2, 2021
“于是成吉思汗说：'不然，人生最快乐的事是战胜敌人，追逐他们，抢夺他们所有的东西，看他们所亲爱的人以泪洗面，骑他们的马，臂挟他们的妻女。'这是自从十五个世纪以来一切匈人游牧部落的首领们的'理想'。”
June 8, 2023
Excellent livre de l'histoire du monde. Auteur devait être un professeur hors pair dont j'aurais bien suivi les cours
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