Empire: A New History of the World
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A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization. Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia then turns to the immense Roman Empire where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates. Then while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire . . . Combining breathtaking scope with masterful narrative control Paul Strathern traces these connections across four millennia and sheds new light on these major civilizationsfrom the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty to the Aztec and Ottoman through to the most recent and biggest empires: the British Russo-Soviet and American. Charting five thousand years of global history in ten lucid chapters Empire makes comprehensive and inspiring reading to anyone fascinated by the history of the world.
