“The Mongol Empire: In Accordance with the Great Törö" is out in The Cambridge History of International Law! My gratitude to Profs. Lesaffer, Carrai, and Ranganathan for including my work & to Prof. Foblets (MPI) for her generous support. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

but one that calls for more collaboration across these damned dynastic boundaries. If interested in the latter, get in touch. Regular link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Free eprints link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VCUCE...

My review of Chinese Statecraft: Political Theory and Administrative Practice in Ming China. Timothy Brook and Lianbin Dai. In sum: a great contribution to understanding jingshi 經世 (statecraft, governance, and political economy)

A new article by me on @medievalists.bsky.social on the clothing and hair of (mostly upper class) medieval Mongolian women of the empire-era has now been posted. A link to it will be in the comments below.

Thanks a lot @kennylinden.bsky.social for sharing 🙏 OA was made possible by the generous support of the Department of Law & Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Download: brill.com/display/titl...

"The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm" by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene is now open access! "This book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history." #tengri #bluesky brill.com/display/titl...

Excited to say that my new article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, "Animal History of the Mongolian Plateau", is out! #tengri #mongolsky #envhist #animalhistory oxfordre.com/asianhistory...

Herbert Spencer is another early conquest theorist to have a significant influence on later conquest theorists. He developed his theory independently of Dühring, and his theory is one of the most comprehensive of conquest theories.

One of the earliest Conquest Theorists is arguably Eugen Dühring. Unfortunately, none of his principal works seems to have been translated into English (I might be wrong). Yet, Engels’s Anti-Dühring does provide a good summary of his Theory of Force.

Uploaded by user "Peng" on Twitter on 03.06.21, the single best scan I have ever come across of the Jin-era "Lady Wenji's Return to Han" 文姬歸漢圖, perhaps the single best surviving artistic depiction of Jurchen clothing

Talked with Maggie Freeman on her podcast “Nomads, Past and Present” about “The Nomadic Leviathan“: #TheNomadic Origin of the State, #TheWeberian State, #The Conquest Theory of State Formation, #Bureaucracy as a method conquest rule, #Extrahuman Transportation ⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-nomadic-...

Maggie Freeman is at it again with a lively podcast on how empires arise. Not surprising from her Mongol guest, horse are the answer. #steppehistory, #chinesehistory

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists. Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!