After Tamerlane
The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Mar '08
Should be back in stock very soon
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