The I. B. Tauris Short Histories series aims to publish introductory texts that will provide a fresh perspective on the way history is taught and understood. This goal is certainly achieved in George Lane's A Short History of the Mongols, which provides a political history of the Mongol Empire from the rise of Chinggis Khan (1165–1227) to the fall of the Mongolian successor states in the fourteenth century. The book is intended primarily for a student audience and will give readers a solid foundation in the major events, personalities, and institutions of the Mongol Empire, while also advancing a new framework for approaching premodern Eurasian history. This framework identifies the Mongol Empire as the “world's first experience of globalisation” and is the culmination of Lane's earlier work on the Ilkhanate and Yuan China (p. 7). This research leads Lane to conclude that Chinggis Khan and his successors brought about...
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