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The Emergence of Premodern States: New Perspectives on the Development of Complex Societies
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On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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The repeated cycle of mass military invasion, large-scale destruction, transient unity and imperial breakup gave the Islamic world a ‘medieval’ history starkly different from that of Europe or China.