Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-25 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Mongolia covers the people and organizations that brought Mongolia from revolution and oppression to independence and democracy, and its current unprecedented level of national wealth and international growth. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mongolia.
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-09 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Traces the history of Mongolia with respect to recent efforts made to form a democratic nation after the fall of Communism, examining the people, regions, economy, and ideologies that have shaped the country.
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Routledge
This dictionary of the modern Mongolian language has been compiled over the last thirty years by the method of reading contemporary printed material and evaluating words and phrases within their actual context. The range of vocabulary presented illustrates the often widely varying interests and tone of publications dating from the days of the Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992) and those of its successor, Mongolia. Sources used include newspapers, academic, literary and semi-popular journals and magazines, and books in many fields of interest such as animal husbandry, botany, zoology, history, geography, medicine, magic, hunting, arts and crafts and technology. The intention has been to keep pace, as far as practicable, with the reflection in language of a rapidly evolving social and political situation, for which reason earlier dictionaries have not been quarried as a source for head words and subsidiary entries, though the compiler acknowledges the help they have afforded in formulating English equivalents. The dictionary contains about twenty-six and a half thousand main entries and numerous subsidiary entries. To enhance its usefulness some short quotations from original sources have been included with the intention of illustrating current usage. Wherever possible, too, the originals of loanwords from Tibetan have been supplied. It is hoped that the dictionary will be useful to beginners and more advanced students of the Mongolian language, whether in academic life, government service, journalism, business or other fields.
