After Tamerlane: 'The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400-2000' by Oxford historian John Darwin provides an overview of Eurasian history over the last 6 centuries. Darwin tries to point out how the tides of time are shaped by empires, the Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets. How they were created and eventually destroyed. He talks about the history of empire within a global context. From the great Mongolian conqueror Tamerlane in the 15th century to economic globalization, with China and India rising as economic powers and America as world power at the advent of the 21st century. Darwin's approach gives a broad outline of the global interconnectedness. An insightful book chronicling the great historical empires.
