Empires that shook the world
By: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Metro Books; Quercus Publishing Plc; Barnes & Noble
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781435105461; 9781847245137
Subjects: World history; Imperialism; History
Description: Author Andrew Taylor shines a spotlight on 25 imperial hegemonies from every period of global history--from the Mongols of Genghis Khan who made Europe quake with fear during the 13th century to the dizzying rise of Hitler's Third Reich in the 20th century. Taylor also examines the ways in which imperial structures collapse, their reliance on single, powerful individuals, and the way they cope with the problem of disparate peoples and religions within their borders.
Table of contents: title: The Sumerian Empire; title: the Assyrian Empire; title: the Achaemenid Empire; title: the Athenian Empire; title: Alexander the Great; title: the Roman Empire; title: the Chinese Empire; title: the empire of Aksum; title: the Byzantine Empire; title: the Holy Roman Empire; title: the Umayyad Empire; title: the ʻAbbasid Empire; title: the Chola Empire; title: the Mongol Empire; title: the Ottoman Empire; title: the Songhai Empire; title: the Inca Empire; title: the Aztec Empire; title: the trading empires of Spain and Portugal; title: India and the Mughal Empire; title: the British Empire; title: the Napoleonic Empire; title: the Third Reich; title: the Soviet Empire; title: a new world empire?