The Rise & Fall of Hyperpowers: Tolerance, Intolerance & Lessons for America World History

Giving her inaugural lecture as the John M. Duff Professor, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua discusses her work exploring the parallel trends in the historical development of world-dominant empires, highlighting Persia, Rome, Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Mongolian Empire, and the importance tolerance and pluralism played in each establishing a global empire.