Empires: From the Ancient World to the Present Day

By Phyllis Jestice

This sweeping, beautifully illustrated hardback provides an essential guide to empires in history from the ancient world to the modern day.

In Empires, Phyllis Jestice explores the rise and fall of empires from across history and throughout the globe. Covering such important questions as what is an empire and how do they come about, Empires seeks to explain the place of empires in world history and explores the conquests, the international rivalries, the tensions and the resistances that defined their course.

More than 30 different empires are examined in this book, including:
- The Assyrian Empire
- The Roman Empire
- The Mongol Empire
- The Aztec Empire
- The Spanish Empire
- The British Empire
- The Japanese Empire

Featuring maps, illustrations, timelines and photographs, it makes for an essential overview of world history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398874310
• ISBN13: 9781398874312
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
• Length: 240 Pages