Author: Edward GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
Author: Sir John Bagot GlubbPublisher:
ISBN: 9780851581279
Category : Geopolitics
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Fall of Empires
Author: Chad DentonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781594163340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Historical Survey of the Many Ways Empires have Succumbed to External and Internal Pressures There are no self-proclaimed empires today. After the twentieth century, with its worldwide wave of decolonizing and liberation movements, the very word "empire" conjures images of slavery, war, repression, and colonialism. None of this is to say that empires are confined to the past, however. By at least some reasonable definitions, empires do exist today. Many articles and books speak about the decline of the "American Empire," for example, or compare the history of the United States to that of Rome or the British Empire. Yet no public official would speak candidly of American "imperial" interests in the Middle East or use the word "empire" in discussions of the nation's future the same way British politicians did in the twentieth century. In addition, empires don't have to fit the classical Roman mold; there are many kinds of empire and varieties of international authority, such as cultural imperialism and economic imperialism. But it is clear empires do not last, even those that once harnessed great wealth, strong armies, and sophisticated legal systems. InThe Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse, historian Chad Denton describes the end of seventeen empires throughout world history, from Athens to Qin China, from the Byzantium to the Mughals. He reveals--through stories of conquest, corruption, incompetence, assassination, bigotry, and environmental crisis--how even the most seemingly eternal of empires declined. For Athens and Britain it was military hubris; for Qin China and Russia it was alienating their subjects through oppression; Persia succumbed with the loss of its capital; the Khmer faced ecological catastrophe; while the Aztecs were destroyed by colonial exploitation. None of these events alone explains why the empires fell, but they do provide a glimpse into the often-unpredictable currents of history, which have so far spared no empire. A fascinating and instructive survey, The Fall of Empiresprovides compelling evidence about the fate of centralized regional or global power.
Introduction. The extinction of the empire
Author: Heinrich von TreitschkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Introduction. The extinction of the empire
Author: Heinrich von TreitschkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteeth Century: Introduction. The extinction of the empire
Author: Heinrich von TreitschkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Volume 7
Author: Edward 1737-1794 GibbonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017277586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward GibbonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625584156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.