... the status quo. The chapter also focuses on the most continuously challenging problem: the border between the Ottoman and Persian empires, which Britain attempted to stabilise in conjunction with Russia, in order to defuse the entrenched hostility between these two political and religious foes. It highlights...

...This chapter addresses how the European peace of 1815 ended Napoleon's dreams and left the Ottoman Empire intact. It reveals that conflicts in the Balkans and the Caucasus showed that the Ottoman and Persian empires were vulnerable to Russian pressure. The chapter also studies the defence of India...

...This book looks beyond the life of Alexander the Great in order to examine the astonishing range of Alexanders created by generations of authors, historians, and artists throughout the world, from Scotland to China. Alexander's defeat of the Persian Empire in 331 BC captured the popular imagination...