Title:
After Tamerlane : the global history of empire since 1405
Author:
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Physical Description:
xiv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781596913936
Abstract:
"After Tamerlane takes a sweeping new look at our global past. John Darwin's account shows that the ascent of the West was neither foreordained nor a linear process. Indeed, it is likely to be a transitory phase, as we witness the great resurgence of Asia, the central feature of our modern "globalized" world. If we are to make sense of our future, we need also to make sense of our Eurasian past."--Jacket.
General Note:
"First published in the United Kindom by Penguin Books Ltd. in 2007"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Orientations -- Eurasia and the age of discovery -- The early modern equilibrium -- The Eurasian revolution -- The race against time -- The limits of empire -- Towards the crisis of the world, 1914-1942 -- Empire denied -- Tamerlane's shadow.
Language:
English
