The tyrants
Title:
The tyrants
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Examines 50 of the most evil tyrants in world history, in chronological order.
Year Published:
2006
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill.
Note:
Includes index.
30.00
"2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption"--Cover.
Contents:
Introduction -- Xerxes (485-465 BC) -- Dionysius of Sicily (405-367 BC) -- Qin Shi Huang (247-210 BC) -- Julius Caesar (49-44 BC) -- Herod the Great (37-4 BC) -- Caligula (AD 37-41) -- Nero (AD 54-68) -- Commodus (180-92) -- Justinian (527-65) -- Wu Zetian (690-705) -- Al-Hakim (996-1021) -- King John (1199-1216) -- Genghis Khan (1206-27) -- Muhammad Tughlak (1325-51) -- Tamerlane (1370-1405) -- Vlad 'The Impaler' (1456-62) -- Cesare Borgia (1500-03) -- Selim the Grim (1512-20) -- Ivan the Terrible (1533-84) -- Bloody Mary (1553-8) -- Oliver Cromwell (1653-8) -- Maximilien Robespierre (1793-4) -- Napoleon (1799-1814) -- José Rodriguez de Francia (1814-40) -- Shaka Zulu (1816-28) -- Mutesa I of Buganda (1856-84) -- Francisco Solano López (1862-70) -- Leopold II (1865-1909) -- Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909) -- Vladimir Lenin (1917-24) -- Benito Mussolini (1922-43) -- Josef Stalin (1929-53) -- Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) -- Adolf Hitler (1933-45) -- Francisco Franco (1936-75) -- Kim Il Sung (1945-95) -- Juan Perón (1946-55) -- Mao Zedong (1949-76) -- Sukarno (1949-66) -- 'Papa Doc' Duvalier (1957-71) -- Nicolae Ceasescu (1965-89) -- Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (1965-97) -- Jean-Bedel Bokassa (1966-79) -- Muammar al-Qaddafi (1969-) -- Idi Admin (1971-9) -- Augusto Pinochet (1973-86) -- Pol Pot (1975-9) -- Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-89) -- Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) -- Slobodan Milosevic (1989-2000) -- Index.
Grade Interest level:
9-12
Subject:
ISBN:
9781905204359
Publisher:
London : Quercus, c2006.
