{"product_id":"empire-a-new-history-of-the-world","title":"Empire : A New History of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e288 pages | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eA dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eEminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eNext the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eCombining breathtaking scope with masterful narrative control, Paul Strathern traces these connections across four millennia and sheds new light on these major civilizations—from the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty to the Aztec and Ottoman Empires, through to the most recent and biggest empires: the British, Russo-Soviet, and American.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eCharting five thousand years of global history in ten lucid chapters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #545454; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e makes comprehensive and inspiring reading to anyone fascinated by the history of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIMON \u0026 SCHUSTER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44457789915273,"sku":"9781643137681","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/212ef6346a3c7fa1d362b74b5618b7b2ccefc169.jpg?v=1757061280","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/empire-a-new-history-of-the-world","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}