Day of empire how hyperpowers rise to global dominance-- and why they fall
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Doubleday
2007
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Table of Contents:
- The first hegemon : the great Persian empire from Cyrus to Alexander
- Tolerance in Rome?s high empire : gladiators, togas, and imperial glue
- China?s golden age : the mix-blooded Tang dynasty
- The great Mongol empire : cosmopolitan barbarians
- The "purification" of medieval Spain : inquisition, expulsion, and the price of intolerance
- The Dutch world empire : diamonds, damask, and every "mongrel sect in Christendom"
- Tolerance and intolerance in the East : the Ottoman, Ming, and Mughal empires
- The British empire : "rebel buggers" and the "white man?s burden"
- The American hyperpower : tolerance and the microchip
- The rise and fall of the Axis Powers : the strategic price of intolerance
- The challengers : China, the European Union, and India in the twenty-first century
- The day of empire : lessons of history
The great empires of Asia