Books similar like In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History

Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New York Times Book Review ), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Chr…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development—and demise—of civilizations across time

Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces t…

Buy this book on Amazon

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations.

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of anc…

Buy this book on Amazon

Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion

Buy this book on Amazon

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.

When the once-mighty city …

Buy this book on Amazon

Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth

Buy this book on Amazon

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia

The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of …

Buy this book on Amazon

De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis. Zijn zoektocht voert hem naar het ontstaan van de Nederlanden in de vijftiende eeuw. En wat blijkt? …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Thirty Years War

Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless independent states. After angry Protestants tossed three representat…

Buy this book on Amazon

Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

Buy this book on Amazon

Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico

"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A fascinating story."--Christian Science Monitor

There hav…

Buy this book on Amazon

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.

With the utterance of a single line--"Docto…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

Buy this book on Amazon

Greece Against Rome: The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250–31 BC

Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military powe…

Buy this book on Amazon

The English and their History

In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told…

Buy this book on Amazon

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

Buy this book on Amazon

Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

Buy this book on Amazon

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets

For all of human history, the deep ocean …

Buy this book on Amazon

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

Buy this book on Amazon

The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History

Similar books (20)