In the Shadow of the Gods
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From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history
of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled
by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands
they could rule over and no limit to their authority. They operated
beyond normal human constraint and indeed often claimed a
superhuman or divine authority. In practice they ran the gamut from
being some of the most remarkable men who ever lived, to being some
of the worst and least remarkable.Dominic Lieven's marvellous new
book, In the Shadow of the Gods, is the first to grapple seriously
with this extraordinary phenomenon. Across the world peoples,
willingly or unwillingly, fell into orbit around figures who
reshaped or destroyed entire societies, imposed religions and
invaded rivals. Lieven describes the anatomy of imperial monarchy
and the principles by which it functioned.He compares the great
emperors of antiquity, the caliphs and the warrior-emperors of the
steppe before he turns to the Habsburg, Russian, Ottoman, Mughal
and Chinese emperors, packing the book with extraordinary stories,
astute observations and a sense of both delight and horror at these
individuals' antics. The entire breadth of extreme human behaviour
is here - from warlords to patrons of the arts, from political
genius to feeble incapacity and pathological violence. As one of
the great experts both on empires and on Russian history, Lieven is
brilliantly qualified to write a book that brings to life a system
of rule that dominated most of human history, as well as some of
history's grandest and most dismaying figures.
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Penguin Books ,
Dominic Lieven
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Penguin Books,
Dominic Lieven
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Slovart
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