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After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 - Hardcover
Tamerlane was the last of the 'world conquerors': his armies looted and killed from the shores of the Mediterranean to the frontier of China. Nomad horsemen from the Steppes had been the terror of Europe and Asia for centuries, but with Tamerlane's death in 1405, an epoch of history came to an end. The future belonged to the great dynastic empires - Chinese, Mughal, Iranian and Ottoman - where most of Eurasia's culture and wealth was to be found, and to the oceanic voyagers from Eurasia's 'Far West', just beginning to venture across the dark seas.
After Tamerlane is an immensely important and stimulating work. It takes a fresh look at our global past. Our idea of world history is still dominated by the view from the West: it is Europe's expansion that takes centre-stage. But for much of the six-hundred year span of this book. Asia's great empires seemed much more than a match for the intruders from Europe. It took a revolution in Eurasia to change this balance of power, although never completely. The Chinese empire, against all the odds, has survived to this day. The British empire came and went. The Nazi empire was crushed almost at once. The rise, fall and endurance of empires - and the causes behind them - remain one of the most fascinating puzzles in world history.
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'An amazingly erudite history of the world since the Mongol conquests...a sensational accomplishment, covering everything from Manchu China to Victorian Britain, and makes a powerful case that empire has been the "default position" for most of human history' -- Dominic Sandbrook, Telegraph Books of the Year
'In this marvellously illuminating book, John Darwin accepts much
but not all of the revisionist analysis. With an awesome grasp of global
history, he demonstrates that the continental peninsula of Europe was
peripheral for most of the time since the 14th-century conquests of
Tamerlane...Darwin sustains an intricate thesis with enormous panache.' -- Piers Brendon, The Independent, 4 May 2007
A wonderful and imaginative addition to the select library of
books on world history that one really wants to possess, and dip into, for
ever...It is rather wonderful to doff one's hat to a historian who can
range across time and space, giving the reader continual cause for pause,
in the way that Darwin has done. -- Paul Kennedy, Sunday Times
A work of massive erudition, After Tamerlane overturns smug
Eurocentric teleologies to present a compelling new perspective on
international history. Though the subject of empire stirs partisan passions
these days, Darwin exudes fairmindedness...Big topics demand big
treatments, yet few are brave or knowledgeable enough to hazard them.
Darwin has provided an ambitious, monumental and convincing reminder that
empires are the rule, not the exception, in world history. -- Maya Jasanoff, Guardian 12 May 2007
An astonishingly comprehensive, arrestingly fresh and vivid
history of the forces that underlie the world we live in today, After
Tamerlane sets aside ideologies in which European power - sometimes seen as
liberating and at others as diabolically oppressive - is the driving force
of modern development...After reading this masterpiece of historical
writing, one thing is clear. The world has not seen the last empire. -- John Gray, Literary Review, April 2007
Darwin `gives us world history on the grand scale, equipping his
readers with the knowledge and insights to make their own assessment of
what is coming next. If only his book could find its way into the right
hands, it might also serve to make the world a less dangerous place.'
-- Tim Blanning, Sunday Telegraph
`John Darwin's After Tamerlane stoutly refuses to examine empire only in regard to one continent's aggression in the past. Instead, he demonstrates with lucidity and learning how and why empire has been such a recurring and ubiquitous political phenomenon, and argues (surely correctly) that, while our own times may be post-colonial, they are scarcely securely post-imperial' -- Linda Colley, TLS Books of the Year
`Possibly the most resourceful and exciting of all is John Darwin`s After Tamerlane, spanning six centuries since the 1405 death of the semi-legendary Mongol conqueror and, crucially, taking the whole Eurasian landmass, not just Europe, as its central focus.'
-- The Independent
'In this marvellously illuminating book, John Darwin accepts much
but not all of the revisionist analysis. With an awesome grasp of global
history, he demonstrates that the continental peninsula of Europe was
peripheral for most of the time since the 14th-century conquests of
Tamerlane...Darwin sustains an intricate thesis with enormous panache.' -- Piers Brendon, The Independent, 4 May 2007
A wonderful and imaginative addition to the select library of
books on world history that one really wants to possess, and dip into, for
ever...It is rather wonderful to doff one's hat to a historian who can
range across time and space, giving the reader continual cause for pause,
in the way that Darwin has done. -- Paul Kennedy, Sunday Times
A work of massive erudition, After Tamerlane overturns smug
Eurocentric teleologies to present a compelling new perspective on
international history. Though the subject of empire stirs partisan passions
these days, Darwin exudes fairmindedness...Big topics demand big
treatments, yet few are brave or knowledgeable enough to hazard them.
Darwin has provided an ambitious, monumental and convincing reminder that
empires are the rule, not the exception, in world history. -- Maya Jasanoff, Guardian 12 May 2007
An astonishingly comprehensive, arrestingly fresh and vivid
history of the forces that underlie the world we live in today, After
Tamerlane sets aside ideologies in which European power - sometimes seen as
liberating and at others as diabolically oppressive - is the driving force
of modern development...After reading this masterpiece of historical
writing, one thing is clear. The world has not seen the last empire. -- John Gray, Literary Review, April 2007
Darwin `gives us world history on the grand scale, equipping his
readers with the knowledge and insights to make their own assessment of
what is coming next. If only his book could find its way into the right
hands, it might also serve to make the world a less dangerous place.'
-- Tim Blanning, Sunday Telegraph
`John Darwin's After Tamerlane stoutly refuses to examine empire only in regard to one continent's aggression in the past. Instead, he demonstrates with lucidity and learning how and why empire has been such a recurring and ubiquitous political phenomenon, and argues (surely correctly) that, while our own times may be post-colonial, they are scarcely securely post-imperial' -- Linda Colley, TLS Books of the Year
`Possibly the most resourceful and exciting of all is John Darwin`s After Tamerlane, spanning six centuries since the 1405 death of the semi-legendary Mongol conqueror and, crucially, taking the whole Eurasian landmass, not just Europe, as its central focus.'
-- The Independent
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2007
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- ISBN 13 9780713996678
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