The Fall Of A Dynasty
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The Fall Of The Dynasties
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Author : Edmond Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Fall Of The Dynasties written by Edmond Taylor and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with History categories.
“Popular history of the finest sort . . . an excellent book worthy to rank with Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Alan Moorehead’s Gallipoli.” —The New York Times On June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots. In the next five minutes, as the stout middle-aged Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife bled to death, a dynasty—and with it, a whole way of life—began to topple. In the ages before World War I, four dynasties—the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov—dominated much of civilization. Outwardly different, they were at bottom somewhat alike: opulent, grandiose, suffocating in tradition, ostentatiously gilded on the surface and rotting at the core. Worse still, they were tragically out of step with the forces shaping the modern world. The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay and their splintered baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war. “All convulsions of the last half-century,” Taylor writes, “stem back to Sarajevo: the two World Wars, the Bolshevik revolution, the rise and fall of Hitler, and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Millions upon millions of deaths can be traced to one or another of these upheavals; all of us who survive have been scarred at least emotionally by them.” In this classic volume, Taylor traces the origins of the dynasties whose collapse brought the old order crashing down and the events leading to their astonishingly swift downfall. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
The Fall Of A Dynasty
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Author : Joe Khamisi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Fall Of A Dynasty written by Joe Khamisi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Dynasty
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Author : Tom Holland
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2015-10-20
Dynasty written by Tom Holland and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-20 with History categories.
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his masterful, witty, brilliantly researched popular history of the fall of the Roman republic—with Dynasty, a luridly fascinating history of the reign of the first five Roman emperors. Dynasty continues Rubicon's story, opening where that book ended: with the murder of Julius Caesar. This is the period of the first and perhaps greatest Roman Emperors and it's a colorful story of rule and ruination, running from the rise of Augustus through to the death of Nero. Holland's expansive history also has distinct shades of I Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) Emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five Caesars continues to cast a mesmerizing spell across the millennia.
The Fall Of A Chinese Dynasty
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Author : Hans Bielenstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
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The Last Mughal
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Author : William Dalrymple
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-08-17
The Last Mughal written by William Dalrymple and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-17 with Law categories.
WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
The Fall Of The Ts In Dynasty And The Rise Of That Of Han
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Author : Charles Piton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880*
The Fall Of The Ts In Dynasty And The Rise Of That Of Han written by Charles Piton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880* with categories.
Fall Of Imperial China
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Author : Frederic Wakeman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1977
Fall Of Imperial China written by Frederic Wakeman and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline. From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."
The Fall Of The Dynasties The Collapse Of The Old Order 1905 1922 Primary Source Edition
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Author : Edmond Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-03-13
The Fall Of The Dynasties The Collapse Of The Old Order 1905 1922 Primary Source Edition written by Edmond Taylor and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with categories.
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The Fall Of The Dynasties The Collapse Of The Old Order 1905 1922 Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Edmond Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-15
The Fall Of The Dynasties The Collapse Of The Old Order 1905 1922 Scholar S Choice Edition written by Edmond Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with categories.
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Summary Of Edmond Taylor S The Fall Of The Dynasties
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-19T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Edmond Taylor S The Fall Of The Dynasties written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The visit that the Habsburg heir and his wife, Sophie, paid to Sarajevo lasted only an hour, but the drama of those 60 or 70 minutes has revolutionized the course of modern history. #2 The view of Sarajevo from the southwest is a lovely one. The valley of the Miljacka, a shallow torrent that cuts the town in two, narrows at its eastern outskirts to a rugged gorge commanded by the ruined Turkish fort from which it takes its name. #3 The marriage of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Este (as he preferred to be called) and Countess Sophie Chotek was a model of bourgeois felicity. It was in fact something more than that: the day they took their last ride together, they were still in love. #4 The Archduke’s numerous enemies exploited every weapon in the armory of protocol to vex and humiliate him. The Archduke, a brooding, vindictive man, set up a sort of rival Court at his Belvedere Palace on a hilltop overlooking Vienna.