Tamerlane

This is a scholarly study of Timur (Tamerlane), the Central Asian conqueror who rose in the late fourteenth century on the ruins of Mongol rule and campaigned from the steppe to India, Russia, and Anatolia. Manz examines how a nomad leader built a dynasty: tribal politics, control of settled cities, army organization, and the limits of personal rule. The book is less a catalogue of sieges than an analysis of how such an empire was held together. It is a political history of Timurid state formation, not a romantic life of the conqueror.

Bound in shimmering blue-grey metallic buckram, blocked on the cover with a black and silver device. Plain dark grey slipcase.