Howorth Henry H. History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century. Part I

The Mongols Proper and the Kalmyks. — London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. — 743 p.This 1876 work is a comprehensive history of the nomad tribes who dominated Central Asia during the early centuries of the last millennium, and of their great rulers: the khans. Drawing firsthand on numerous scholarly sources and full of illustrative detail and entertaining anecdotes, this remains a vital reference on a civilization now lost to time. Part 1 of this three-volume work includes the tales of: • Jingis (Genghis) Khan • Ogotai Khan • Kuyuk Khan • Mangu Khan • Khubilai Khan • Toghon Timur Khan • the Chakhars and the Forty-Nine Banners • the early contact between the Russians and the Mongols • and much more. British ethnologist and historian Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923) served as president of the Royal Archaeological Institute, and is the author of Glacial Nightmare and the Flood (1893) and Methods of Archaeological Research (1896), among other works.