In the shadow of the gods the emperor in world history
"A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the c...
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| Sprache: | English |
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[New York]
Viking
2022
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| Ausgabe: | First North American edition |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Being an emperor
- Cradle of empire : the Ancient Near East and the world's first emperors
- The Persian emperors and Alexander of Macedon
- The Roman imperial monarchy
- Ashoka, India and the origins of Buddhism
- The origins of Chinese emperorship
- Nomads
- Imperial civilization and Chinese tradition : the Tang and Song Dynasties
- The Islamic Caliphate : the ultimate universal empire
- Charles V and Philip II : the first global Emperors
- Emperors, caliphs and sultans : the Ottoman Dynasty
- The Mughals : India's greatest dynasty
- China's last dynasties : the Ming and the Qing
- The Romanovs : dynastic, Russian, European and Eurasian emperors
- Europe on the eve of modernity : the Habsburgs, the French Revolution and Napoleon
- Emperors and modernity : 1815-1945