Atlas of Empires (eBook)

The World's Great Powers from Ancient Times to Today

Peter Davidson (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
Companionhouse Books (Verlag)
978-1-62008-288-1 (ISBN)

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Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and it discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. This book features 60 beautiful and detailed maps of the empires' territories at different stages of their existence, and it organizes them thematically to reflect the different driving forces behind empires throughout history (such as faith, nomadic culture, nationhood, and capitalism). Each section discusses the rise and fall of the empires that existed in a region: *Government and society *Wealth and technology *War and military force *Religious beliefs *And more! From the earliest empires of the Sumerians and the Pharaohs to the modern empires of the USSR and the European Union, this is a story that reveals how empires are created and organized, how later empires resolve the problems of governance faced by earlier empires, and how the political and cultural legacies of ancient empires are still felt today.

Peter Davidson is a freelance writer and has been, among other things, a restorer of antiquities from around the world, a writer and director of documentaries on World War II and related subjects for the History Channel, and a tutor on the Politics, Philosophy and History degree at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the co-author of Milestones of Civilization.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2018
• Verlagsort: Mount Joy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: American Empire • British Empire • Cartography • European Union • fall of empires • Fall of Rome • falls of empires • great empires • History • history of empires • history of the USSR • Maps • pharoahs • rise of empires • Rise of Rome • Roman Empire • Roman History • sumerians • USSR • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-62008-288-8 / 1620082888
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62008-288-1 / 9781620082881