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Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilization, and The History of Money.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or... Read more >
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or... Read more >
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $25.95
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. Contrary to this caricature, Genghis Khan was really a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia... Read more >
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $25.95
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. Contrary to this caricature, Genghis Khan was really a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia... Read more >
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00
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Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 22, 2005
Price: $15.00
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The History of Money
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 10, 1998
Price: $14.95
In his most widely appealing book yet, cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money. From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have... Read more >
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: March 10, 1998
Price: $14.95
In his most widely appealing book yet, cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money. From primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have... Read more >
The History of Money
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $14.95
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Indian Givers
How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 29, 1989
Price: $15.00
Writing in a lucid style, Weatherford documents the amazing sophistication of Indian cultures and traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, the world’s democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology. The Indians set a sophisticated urban trading economy in motion when they unearthed... Read more >
How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 29, 1989
Price: $15.00
Writing in a lucid style, Weatherford documents the amazing sophistication of Indian cultures and traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, the world’s democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology. The Indians set a sophisticated urban trading economy in motion when they unearthed... Read more >
Native Roots
How the Indians Enriched America
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 15, 1992
Price: $13.95
In Native Roots, Jack Weatherford focuses on the vital role that Indian civilizations have played in the making of the United States. Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World re-created the societies they had known in England, France, and Spain. As Weatherford shows, Europeans in fact... Read more >
How the Indians Enriched America
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 15, 1992
Price: $13.95
In Native Roots, Jack Weatherford focuses on the vital role that Indian civilizations have played in the making of the United States. Conventional American history holds that the white settlers of the New World re-created the societies they had known in England, France, and Spain. As Weatherford shows, Europeans in fact... Read more >
Savages and Civilization
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $19.00
In Indian Givers and Native Roots Weatherford wrote of the clash between Native American and European cultures; in Savages and Civilization he widens his scope to illuminate the global scale of ethnic strife as the indigenous peoples that are facing the loss of their cultural identities demonstrate a growing resistance to... Read more >
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $19.00
In Indian Givers and Native Roots Weatherford wrote of the clash between Native American and European cultures; in Savages and Civilization he widens his scope to illuminate the global scale of ethnic strife as the indigenous peoples that are facing the loss of their cultural identities demonstrate a growing resistance to... Read more >
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
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How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
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How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $26.00
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $20.00
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How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Written by Jack Weatherford
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $20.00
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