Download or read book After Tamerlane written by John Darwin and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The End of the British Empire traces the rise and fall of large-scale empires in the centuries after the death of the emperor Tamerlane in 1405, in an account that challenges conventional beliefs about the rise of the western world and contends that European ascendancy may be a transitory event.