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"Marvellously illuminating...Darwin sustains an intricate thesis with enormous panache."--"Independent "(UK )
"Elegant and brilliant....wonderful and imaginative...a deeply significant book."--"Sunday Times "(UK )
"Undoubtedly a great work, a book that goes truly global in chronicling the history of one of our abiding concerns: the pull and limitations of absolute power."--"St. Petersburg Times"
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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.
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It had encouraged a remarkable movement of people, trade and ideas around the waist of Eurasia, along the great grassy corridor of steppe, and Mongol rule may have served as the catalyst for commercial and intellectual change in an age of general economic expansion.3 Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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It had encouraged a remarkable movement of people, trade and ideas around the waist of Eurasia, along the great grassy corridor of steppe, and Mongol rule may have served as the catalyst for commercial and intellectual change in an age of general economic expansion.3 Lesen Sie die erste Seite Ausgewählte Seiten ansehen
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6. Februar 2010
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After Tamerlane is an interesting and ambitious book. It offers a great deal of information about the world's history of the past 600 years, appearing based on my basic knowledge, to have been carefully researched. I looked forward to reading it every day, and I wished there were more than the 500 pages when I was finished.
However, Darwin seems to use the book to grind one or more axes. His unofficial thesis was that the West is greatly overrated and most historians are schmucks. It becomes tiresome to be told what you have read, particularly when you have not read what you are accused of having read. I had the feeling that I had stumbled into an argument between a grad student and his advisor, who is now retired. More significantly, it compromises the book. Darwin repeatedly asserts that the non-Western nations possessed greater dynamism than they have been given credit for having, yet the book is a basically a story about the development of the military and economic dominance of the West. In the end, it almost seems to mock the Afro-Asian societies that he tries to celebrate.
Most people are at least acqainted with the achievements of the non-Europeans, and he would have done well to either look at what allowed Europeans to dominate the world, or to look at the needs of Africans and Asians that they met allowing them to become dominant.
However, Darwin seems to use the book to grind one or more axes. His unofficial thesis was that the West is greatly overrated and most historians are schmucks. It becomes tiresome to be told what you have read, particularly when you have not read what you are accused of having read. I had the feeling that I had stumbled into an argument between a grad student and his advisor, who is now retired. More significantly, it compromises the book. Darwin repeatedly asserts that the non-Western nations possessed greater dynamism than they have been given credit for having, yet the book is a basically a story about the development of the military and economic dominance of the West. In the end, it almost seems to mock the Afro-Asian societies that he tries to celebrate.
Most people are at least acqainted with the achievements of the non-Europeans, and he would have done well to either look at what allowed Europeans to dominate the world, or to look at the needs of Africans and Asians that they met allowing them to become dominant.
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12. Oktober 2011
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I have a general interest in world history and I was looking for an overview of the development of modern civilizations. I found this book to be interesting and easy to read, not overly "academic" in its writing style. I read it at the same time as A Splendid Exchange and thought that they both complemented each other well. I didn't notice any strong bias or "ax grinding" in the writing, but perhaps that's because I haven't done a ton of historical reading. Either way, I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good overview of the time period it covers.
After Tamerlane
21. Juni 2011
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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin was the winner of the 2007 Wolfson History Prize for Excellence in the writing of history. John Darwin, a well known historian, has researched and written a truly comprehensive perspective about shifting of power in global history. This books takes the reader to the past, present, and future of global empires.
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