A team of international scholars examine the rise, fall, and legacy of the Mongol world empire.

Introduction Nicola Di Cosmo, Allen J. Frank and Peter B. Golden; Part I. The Rise of the Chinggisids: 1. Inner Asia c.1200 Peter B. Golden; 2. The Mongol age in eastern inner Asia Peter Jackson; 3. The Mongols in inner Asia from Chinggis Khan's invasion to the rise of Temür: the Ögödeid and Chaghadaid realms Michal Biran; 4. The Jochid realm: the western Steppe and eastern Europe István Vásáry; Part II. Legacies of the Mongol Conquests: 5. Administration, revenues and trade Arsenio Peter Martinez; 6. Migrations, ethnogenesis Peter B. Golden; 7. Islamization in the Mongol Empire Devin DeWeese; 8. Mongols as vectors for cultural transmission Tom Allsen; Part III. Chinggisid Decline: 1368-c.1700: 9. The eastern Steppe: Mongol regimes after the Yuan (1368-1636) Veronic Veit; 10. Temür and the early Timurids to c.1450 Beatrice Forbes Manz; 11. Later Timurids c.1450-1526 Stephen Dale; Part IV. Nomads and Settled Peoples in Inner Asia after the Timurids: 12. Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmen Yuri Bregel; 13. The western Steppe: Volga Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea Allen J. Frank; 14. Eastern central Asia (Xinjiang): 1300-1800 James Millward; 15. The Chinggisid restoration in central Asia: 1500-1785 Robert McChesney; 16. The western Steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule Christian Noack; Part V. New Imperial Mandates and the End of the Chinggisid Era (18th-19th Centuries): 17. The Qing and Inner Asia: 1636-1800 Nicola Di Cosmo; 18. The Qazaqs and Russia Allen J. Frank; 19. Russia and the peoples of the Volga-Ural region: 1600-1850 Allen J. Frank; 20. The new Uzbek states: Bukhara, Khiva and Khoqand: c.1750-1886 Yuri Bregel.