Collapse Episodes of Imperial Decay

Sooner or later empires die. Throughout history empires have been brought down by a variety of causes from foreign invasions to ecological disasters to squabbles between members of a royal family. But what about the people caught up in the chaos of imperial collapse? Here writer and historian Chad Denton delves into seventeen pivotal episodes of history where great empires were at the brink of total ruin and into the personalities who either tried to stop disaster-or sped it along.