Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State In Central Asia

This work examines Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, who was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. It focuses on how, in the 1270s, Qaidu succeeded in establishing a kingdom of the house of Ogedei in central Asia.