After Tamerlane - The Rise & Fall of Global Empires 1400-2000

John Darwin

Penguin Books

2008

567 páginas

18h 54m

ISBN-13: 9720141010229

Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.
All built empires meant to last forever; all wre to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book their empire-building created the world we know today.
From the death of Tamerlane in 1405 to the rise and fall of European empires, and from America's growing imperial presence to the resurgence of China and India as globl economic powers, After Tamerlane is a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past, the present and the future of empires.