A Compleat History of All the Empires
Author : Impartial hand
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1715
Category : World history
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Author : Impartial hand
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Page : 218 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1715
Category : World history
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Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9781435105461
Author Andrew Taylor shines a spotlight on 25 imperial hegemonies from every period of global history--from the Mongols of Genghis Khan who made Europe quake with fear during the 13th century to the dizzying rise of Hitler's Third Reich in the 20th century. Taylor also examines the ways in which imperial structures collapse, their reliance on single, powerful individuals, and the way they cope with the problem of disparate peoples and religions within their borders.
Author : Peter Davidson
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1620082888
Beautifully illustrated with 60 fascinating maps and many illustrations. Accessible and informative history of all of the world's major empires, describing the reasons for their rise and decline. Reviews all of the major empires in world history, including those often overlooked such as the Malian, Aztec and Inca Empires. Stunning amount of information, covering over 4000 years of history. Includes updated section on the European Union. Now available in paperback.
Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 9780892369874
A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China.
Author : B. LE STOURGEON
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1732
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Author : B. Le Stourgeon
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1732
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Author : Louis Daniel LE COMTE
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1739
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Author : B. Le Stourgeon
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1732
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Author : Johann Gottlieb Georgi
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2016-05-23
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ISBN : 9781358910647
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Nicholas Ostler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0066210860
The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has been very little told. Empires of the Word, by the wide-ranging linguist Nicholas Ostler, is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations in education, culture, and diplomacy devised by speakers of Sumerian and its successors in the Middle East, right up to the Arabic of the present day; the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions; the charmed progress of Sanskrit from north India to Java and Japan; the engaging self-regard of Greek; the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe; and the global spread of English. Besides these epic ahievements, language failures are equally fascinating: Why did German get left behind? Why did Egyptian, which had survived foreign takeovers for three millennia, succumb to Mohammed's Arabic? Why is Dutch unknown in modern Indonesia, though the Netherlands had ruled the East Indies for as long as the British ruled India? As this book splendidly and authoritatively reveals, the language history of the world shows eloquently the real character of peoples; and, for all the recent tehnical mastery of English, nothing guarantees our language's long-term preeminence. The language future, like the language past, will be full of surprises.