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| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780007116126 |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20170126094923.0 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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30707 |
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UOWD |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Marozzi, Justin, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1970- |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Tamerlane : |
| Remainder of title |
sword of islam, conqueror of the world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Justin Marozzi. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harper Perennial, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2004. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxiv, 449 p., [16] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps, ports ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Tamerlane, aka Temur-the Mongol successor to Genghis Khan-ranks with Alexander the Great as one of the world's great conquerors, yet the details of his life are scarcely known in the West. Born in obscurity and poverty, he rose to become a fierce tribal leader, and with that his dominion and power grew with astonishing speed. He blazed through Asia, razing cities to the ground. He tortured conquered inhabitants without mercy, sometimes ordering them buried alive, at other times decapitating them. Over the ruins of conquered Baghdad, Tamerlane had his soldiers erect a pyramid of 90,000 enemy heads. As he and his armies swept through Central Asia, sacking, and then rebuilding cities, Tamerlane gradually imposed an iron rule and a refined culture over a vast territory-from the steppes of Asia to the Syrian coastline. Justin Marozzi traveled in the footsteps of this fearsome emperor of Samarkand (modern-day Uzbekistan) to write this book, which is part history, part travelogue. He carefully follows the path of this infamous and enigmatic conqueror, recounting the history and the story of this cruel, cultivated, and indomitable warrior. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Mongols |
| General subdivision |
Kings and rulers |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Timur |
| Chronological subdivision |
1336-1405. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Conquerors |
| Geographic subdivision |
Asia |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Asia |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
To 1500. |
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| Koha item type |
REGULAR |