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A Rise and Fall of the Great Powers for the post–Cold War era—a brilliantly written, sweeping new history of how empires have ebbed and flowed over the past six centuries.   The death of the great Tatar emperor Tamerlane in 1405, writes historian John Darwin, was a turning point in world... read more

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  1. John Darwin (Author)
 

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