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Title: After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Author: John Darwin
ISBN: 0141010223
EAN: 9780141010229
592 Pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2008-03-06

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'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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.'

'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'

`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'

`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.'

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.

Why, in a globalized world, should one state have attained such exceptional power? Why has the economic revival of China and India been such a recent development? Why until recently have the countries of the West (now including Japan) enjoyed such a long lead in technological skills and in their standards of living? Why do the products of Westernized culture (in science, medicine, literature, and the arts) still command for the most part the highest prestige? Why does the international states system, with its laws and norms, reflect the concepts and practice of European statecraft, and territorial formatting on the European model? The globalized world of the late twentieth century was not the predictable outcome of a global free market. Nor could we deduce it from the state of the world five centuries ago. It was the product of a long, confused, and often violent history, of sudden reversals of fortune and unexpected defeats. Its roots stretch back (so it is widely believed) to the `Age of Discovery' - back, indeed, to the death of Tamerlane.

2008-08-05 A mind opener

John Darwin's canvas is a broad one but he controls his subject so well that the overall perspective never gets lost. It is all too easy to see the history of the world from an European viewpoint. This book helps us to see it from a global viewpoint and to understand the world the way it is now. The fact that the book is so elegantly written is a considerable bonus!