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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000. Paperback
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John Darwin
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592 pages. 2008. 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.
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