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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
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Prologue: Symbols of Power
1 Persepolis and the Persian Empire
2 ‘Three Romes’: City-state, Imperium and Christian Capital
3 Constantinople and the New Lords of the Golden Horn
4 From Karakorum to Shakhrisabz: Centres of Power of the Imperial Nomads
5 Power over East Asia: The Forbidden City and the Middle Kingdom
6 Power over South Asia: The ‘Seven Cities’ of Delhi and the Saptusindhu Capital Region
7 Global Power: Philip II and the Escorial
8 Grandeur: Louis XIV and Versailles
9 St Petersburg and the Imperial Vision of Peter the Great
10 Ghosts of Glory: Postscripts to Power
11 Apex or Decline? New Delhi and British Imperial Power
12 Architects of Empire: Hitler, Speer and the Germania Project
13 Cyrus with Golden Caviar: Persepolis Revisited
14 ‘Cities and Thrones and Powers’
15 After Empire: Post-imperial Symbols of Power
APPENDIX: The Terminology of Empire and Imperialism
REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
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