American anthropologist at Macalester College who wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World — arguing that Genghis Khan's empire created the modern world through free trade, meritocracy, religious tolerance, and the first global trade network.
Rehabilitates Genghis Khan as a modernizing force — Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World argues that the Mongol Empire (far from simply being a catastrophe) created the first global trade network, pioneered religious tolerance, spread technological innovations (paper, printing, gunpowder), and established the meritocratic principles that anticipated modern governance.
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