From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial...

Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their...

„After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000“ von John Darwin bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Entwicklung und des Wandels globaler Imperien über sechs Jahrhunderte hinweg. Das Buch beginnt mit dem Tod von Tamerlane...