Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford is a history of the Mongol expansion from Genghis Khan to the 19th century through the telling of a cultural anthropologist, not a historian. He studied The Secret History of the Mongols as gradually came to light over the course of the mid to late-20th century as transcribed by many outside Mongolia, most notably Igor de Rachewiltz an Australian scholar. Transcription inside communist China was considerably more difficult because the authorities imprisoned and executed scholars associated with teachings of Genghis Khan. Thankfully, the fall of Russia in the 1990’s enabled the study of associated Russian documents and the opening of the forbidden zone – the birthplace of Genghis
