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Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Hardcover)
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Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Hardcover)
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From the Akkadian Empire to modern-day America, Rise and Fall
charts the history of the world through its ten greatest empires.
Through these we examine humanity's will to power in forms both
infamous and poorly understood, and trace the evolution of the
imperial impulse as it moves from the blunt military aggression of
the ancient empires to the subtle but far-reaching cultural
influence of today's superpowers. We encounter empires in all their
contradictions - like the Mongol Empire, the largest land empire
the world has ever seen, and yet also the most short-lived. Rise
and Fall also reveals striking, often completely unrelated
historical parallels: pyramids found not just in Egypt but also in
Babylon, Mexico and China; unmistakable echoes of the infant
discovered in a basket myth which occur in the Old Testament, the
Akkadian origin myth, as well in Hinduism. Above all, we see how
the ambition of imperial greatness everywhere - from the Roman
emperors to Hitler - is rooted in dreams of utopia and immortality.
Every empire contains the seeds of its own destruction: so what
precisely is social progress? Who benefits from it, and who
suffers? Rise and Fall reminds us that the progress of humankind
takes many forms, and that - perhaps - the systems we take for
granted today are far from being the only or inevitable course of
future civilisation.
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