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From Collective Sovereignty to Autocracy: The Evolution of the Mongol Empire, 1227-1251.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From Collective Sovereignty to Autocracy: The Evolution of the Mongol Empire, 1227-1251./
Author:	Bechtel, Michael J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-04A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28648168
ISBN:	9798460458684

From Collective Sovereignty to Autocracy: The Evolution of the Mongol Empire, 1227-1251.
Bechtel, Michael J.

From Collective Sovereignty to Autocracy: The Evolution of the Mongol Empire, 1227-1251. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 260 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

When Cinggis Qan died in 1227, the Mongol Empire was a confederation of steppe peoples engaged in conquests over other steppe societies as well as civilizations of Central Eurasia. By the time of the election of Cinggis Qan's grandson, Mongke, to the office of qa'an in 1251, the Mongol Empire had become a loosely allied group of states that recognized the qa'an as the head of an administration whose main duties were the collection and redistribution of wealth. The transformations that took place in the Mongol Empire between 1227 and 1251 saw the ebb of collective sovereignty as an effective ruling structure and a shift toward regional centers of power based upon local needs and coinciding with the four appanages into which Cinggis Qan had divided his conquests among four of his sons. Contrary to existing scholarship that frames 1227-51 as a period of decline and dissolution, this dissertation considers Cinggis Qan's successor, Ogodei (r. 1229-41), and his heirs as actors in a transitional phase of the Mongol state characterized by a waning of collective rule of the unified Mongol confederation and an accretion of authority in the office of qa'an. Key to understanding this period as one of transition as opposed to decline is a reexamination of the Mongols' intentions behind state-building activities and development of administrative institutions. This dissertation challenges existing notions of the Toulid coup as a dynastic exchange of power and, instead, conceives the election of Mongke as an attempt to salvage a unified confederacy and reestablish the mechanisms of collective sovereignty and its constituent infrastructure for the redistribution of wealth among Mongol elite.Finally, this dissertation presents a narrative of the lives of Ogodei, Toregene (r. 1242-46), Guyuk (r. 1246-48), and Oghul Qaimis (r. 1248-51), all of whom occupied the seat of qa'an and are not generally understood to be influential protagonists in the early Mongol Empire. Furthermore, 1227-51 is considered an era consisting of coherent and interrelated elements with discernible characteristics that make it distinct from what came before 1227 and after 1251.

ISBN: 9798460458684Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099323
Asian history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Autocracy

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