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After Tamerlane

The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

John Darwin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:6th Mar '08

Should be back in stock very soon

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Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.

All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined 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, last of the ‘world conquerors’, to the rise and fall of European empires, and from America’s growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India and China as global economic powers, After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past, present and future of empires.

  • Winner of Wolfson Literary Award for History 2008

ISBN: 9780141010229

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm

Weight: 404g

592 pages