J J Saunders

Biographic Data

ID3768065
NAMEJ J Saunders
GIVEN NAMESJ J
FAMILY NAMESaunders
SIGNATURESAUNDERS J J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1939
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The Mongol drive into Europe

    J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    According to the custom or tradition of the Mongols, the land under their control belonged to the family from whom they had selected their khan rather than to an individual sovereign. The ultimate intentions of the Mongol leaders are obscure. They may have considered Hungary, the western extremity of the Eurasian steppe, as the terminus of their endeavour, and planned no further advance, but had they undertaken the invasion of Germany and Italy, …

  • The Christian response

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    The trail of death and horror across eastern Europe in the fateful years 1237-42 convinced Christendom of one thing, that the ferocious ‘Tartars’ were not the people of Prester John who could be relied on to co-operate with the West in the destruction of Islam. The rise of Christian or partly Christian Turkish peoples like the Naimans and the Uighurs to positions of authority and influence in the Mongol world empire presented the Nestorian clergy…

  • The Turkish rehearsal for the Mongol conquests

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    The first nomads to build up a formidable empire in Asia were the Turks, and their extensive conquests may be fitly compared with those of the Mongols seven centuries later. In the general context of world history, the episode of the first Turkish empire possesses considerable significance. The Turks had shown that it was possible for a well-organized nomad confederacy to seize control of almost all the Eurasian steppe from Mongolia to the Ukrain…

  • Eurasian nomadism

    J J Saunders, Jo SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    The geography of the vast continent of Asia may be said to fall into four divisions: the taiga or northern forest; the steppe or treeless pasture; the desert; and the river valleys of the south, on whose rich alluvial soil the great civilizations have arisen. Of these, the first is a high broken plateau sloping away to the Arctic Sea and drained by the mighty rivers of the Ob, Yenesei, Lena and Amur, of which the second and third flow into Lake B…

  • Nomad imperialism

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    The story of China was repeated in Persia, with certain noteworthy variations; once their rule was firm and unchallenged, the Mongol princes looked around for trained and experienced administrators to rebuild the shattered economy and augment the revenues of the state. Because of the gigantic scale of their conquests, the Mongols were the first and only nomadic people to face in its acutest form the problem of ruling, with no previous experience,…

  • The Mongol age in retrospect

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    The Mongol conquests, which shook the globe, were of a scope and range never equalled. The Mongols were invading Japan and Java thirty years after their armies stood on the frontiers of Germany and the shores of the Adriatic. Ethnically, the most striking result of the Mongol conquests was the wide dispersal of the Turkish race over Western Asia. The Turkish entry into Islam had begun long before the Mongol age, and the occupation of Baghdad by t…

  • From Turk to Mongol 750-1200

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    Between the dissolution of the first empire of the Turks and the rise of Chingis Khan lies an interval of four and a half centuries, during which no one tribe or confederacy attained supremacy over the steppes. In the Chinese annals the Ch’i-tan first appear in the early years of the fifth century as roaming north of the Great Wall in the regions of Jehol and Liao-tang. The Ch’i-tan and the Chin had successively broken through the barrier of Chin…

  • Chingis Khan

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    Mongolia, which achieved immortal fame as the country of Chingis Khan, had since the expulsion of the Uighurs in the eighth century been peopled almost exclusively by tribes of Mongol speech and primitive manners. The aboriginal inhabitants of this forbidding land had long been displaced when the name Mongol is first encountered in the Chinese annals. As the national saga proceeds from legend to history, it links the affairs of the Mongols with t…

  • The anti-Mongol reaction

    John Saunders, J J SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    From the death of Kubilai in China in 1294 and of Ghazan in Persia in 1304, the historian traces the disintegration and ultimate collapse of Mongol rule in these ancient urbanized and settled lands. The annals of Mongol China are dominated by the gigantic figure of Kubilai, on whose death the strength of the dynasty appeared to be exhausted, none have deserved the careful notice of history. In an incautious move, a tottering and foolish governmen…

  • Kipchak and Chagatai

    J J Saunders, Jo SaundersCHAPTERThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023

    In the khanates of Kipchak and Chagatai they ruled a simpler and less urbanized society, whose population was partly nomadic and whose governmental system was sufficiently primitive to be administered by men lacking the education and hereditary training of the mandarins of China and the bureaucrats of Iran. The histories of Kipchak and Chagatai are ill-documented, but archaeological finds and the reports of foreigners fill many gaps and supply th…

  • The History of the Mongol Conquests

    John Saunders, J J SaundersBOOKThe History of the Mongol Conquests2023Cited by: 11

    First Published in 1971 The History of the Mongol Conquests presents a general history of the Mongols of the thirteenth century. By using primary and secondary sources, J. J. Saunders fills up a major gap in the English historical literature on the subject. It goes without saying that the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century turned the world upside down. The book opens with a chapter on Eurasian nomadism and an account of the Turkish conque…

  • The History of the Mongol Conquests

    Fred Buchstein, John Saunders et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001Cited by: 5

  • Mid-Wisconsinan Radiocarbon Dates from Mastodon- and Mammoth-Bearing Springs, Ozark Highland, Missouri

    Open AccessC V Haynes, Minze Stuiver et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon1983Cited by: 1References: 7

    From 1966 to 1979, the University of Missouri, the University of Arizona, and the Illinois State Museum conducted extensive interdisciplinary investigations of Late Pleistocene peat deposits associated with springs, some extinct, in the Pomme de Terre River Valley of the Ozark Highland, Missouri (fig 1). Most of the sites are now beneath the waters of the Harry S Truman reservoir. Archaeologic investigations in the area produced a remarkably long…

  • The Mongols in History

    John Saunders, J J Saunders et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1972

  • The Decline and Fall of Christianity in Medieval Asia

    Open AccessJohn Saunders, J J SaundersARTICLEJournal of Religious History1968Cited by: 1

  • Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History

    J J Saunders, Jo Saunders et al.ARTICLEHistory and Theory1966

  • A History of Medieval Islam

    John B Christopher, J J SaundersARTICLEThe American Historical Review1965

  • The Debate on the Fall of Rome

    Open AccessJohn Saunders, J J SaundersARTICLEHistory1963Cited by: 1

  • Political Thought in Islam

    Open AccessJohn Saunders, J J SaundersARTICLEPolitical Science1960

  • T he O rient and the G ræco ‐R oman W orld B efore I slam 1

    Open AccessJohn Saunders, J J SaundersARTICLEHistory1940

  • Lxxxviii.—gibbon and the Decline and Fall. 1

    Open AccessJ J SaundersARTICLEHistory1939