Darwin John. After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405

Penguin Books, 2007. — 592 p. — ISBN: 978-0-141-904468—9.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building created the world we know today.
From the death of Tamerlane in 1405, last of the ‘world conquerors’, to the rise and fall of European empires, and from America’s growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India and China as global economic powers, After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past, present and future of empires.Orientations.
Eurasia and the Age of Discovery.
The Early Modern Equilibrium.
The Eurasian Revolution.
The Race against Time.
The Limits of Empire.
Toward Crisis of the World, 1914—1942.
Empire Denied.
Tamerlane's Shadow.