The Dust of Empire (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Karl E. Meyer
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Setting: The Middle East and Central Asia
- Principal Characters: Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter, Winston Churchill, George Nathaniel Curzon, John Foster Dulles, Mohandas Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Kahn, Ivan IV (the Terrible), Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Jenghiz Kahn, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, V. I. Lenin, Halford Mackinder, Mohammad Mossadeq, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Woodrow Wilson, Mohammad Zahir Shah, Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Colonies or colonization, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Human rights, Islam, Asia or Asians, England or English people, India or East Indian people, Middle East, Imperialism, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Great Britain, Oil wells or oil-well drilling, Pakistan or Pakistanis, Geopolitics, Fundamentalism, Iran or Iranian people, Afghanistan or Afghani people, Iraq or Iraqi people
- Locales: Middle East
Karl E. Meyer’s The Dust of Empire, which is extremely readable with well-chosen anecdotes and a cast of hundreds, is something of a sequel to his Tournament of Shadows (1999), coauthored with Shareen Blair Brysac. Both works focus upon the Asian heartland, which includes the Middle Eastern countries of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan as well as the Caucasus states and the Central Asian nations that became independent after the demise of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. The relevant events of the previous two centuries are related...
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