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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
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5 Reddit comments about After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000:

u/freshthrowaway1138 · 9 pointsr/worldpolitics

Never had enduring stability? Are you kidding? I mean if you think that area is unstable then what do you think Europe was, a paradise of reason and peace? And you can't just dismiss the West's involvement in the region.

u/wastednoob · 6 pointsr/eu4

After Tamerlane

Goodreads

Covers world history from shortly before the start of the game to the present day. It's a good read and most of the book covers the eu4 time period.

u/DeaththeEternal · 5 pointsr/badhistory

https://www.amazon.com/After-Tamerlane-Global-Empires-1400-2000/dp/1596916028

^A modern history-focused look but it's a nice practical example of a non-Eurocentric thesis that doesn't treat history like it has a single teleological arc that all the world must follow or else.

https://www.amazon.com/Gunpowder-Age-Military-Innovation-History/dp/0691178143/ref=sr_1_25?keywords=rise+of+the+west&qid=1573350651&s=books&sr=1-25

^This presents a nice revision of some older narratives and gives the Qing Dynasty more of its own due in military terms.

A broader global standard across the entire expanse of European and Chinese history is too broad a category across too much of a timetable to really be useful in more than a popular historical sense, if that. Historians always select what to omit, and that's where the problems begin and they go downhill from there.

Depending on what's omitted and how it's omitted from either Europe or China either way you get a skewed perspective that raises more questions than it answers.

u/joepyeweed · 3 pointsr/AskHistorians

Thanks for the detailed reply! It's interesting to get another opinion on these topics. I just read [After Tamerlane by John Darwin]( https://www.amazon.com/After-Tamerlane-Global-Empires-1400-2000/dp/1596916028) and (to me, as a history enthusiast at least) it seemed like he was taking a different view on these subjects - that the Indian market was pretty crucial to the British Industrial Revolution.

u/QuirrelMan · -79 pointsr/MapPorn

You are asking me to condense Early Modern History to a comment on Reddit? Uhh, no. But you can read a book if you are interested!

Try After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

Great read, with a new Global perspective on the rise and fall of Empires.

If you want to continue, you should then dive into the arbitrary/flexible notion of the Empire and read The Comanche Empire

Good stuff.