Description
This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history.Volume Two: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases.
Table of Contents
Vol. II - The History of Empires List of ContributorsProlegomenaPETER FIBIGER BANGPart 1. Bronze to Iron AgeThe Near-Eastern "Invention" of Empire (3rd Millennium to 300 BCE)PETER FIBIGER BANG1. Egypt, Old to New Kingdom (2686-1069 BCE)JUAN CARLOS MORENO GARCÍA2. The Sargonic and Ur III EmpiresPIOTR STEINKELLER3. Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World EmpireGOJKO BARJAMOVIC4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to AlexanderMATTHEW W. WATERS5. Ancient Mediterranean City-State Empires: Athens, Carthage, Early RomeWALTER SCHEIDELPart 2. The Classical Age The Formation of Large World Empires on the Margins of Eurasia: The Mediterranean and China (323 BCE-600 CE)PETER FIBIGER BANG6. Hellenistic Empire: The Dynasties of the Ptolemies and the SeleucidsCHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET7. The Mauryan EmpireHIMANSHU PRABHA RAY8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and HanMARK EDWARD LEWIS9. The Roman EmpirePETER FIBIGER BANG10. The Parthian and Sasanian EmpiresMATTHEW P. CANEPA11. The Kushan EmpireCRAIG BENJAMINPart 3. The Ecumenic TurnEclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200)PETER FIBIGER BANG12. The CaliphateANDREW MARSHAM13. The Tang EmpireMARK EDWARD LEWIS14. SrivijayaJOHN N. MIKSIC15. The Khmer EmpireMICHAEL D. COE16. The Byzantine Empire, 641-1453 ADANTHONY KALDELLIS17. Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire and Its SuccessorsROSAMOND McKITTERICKPart 4. The Mongol Moment The Rise of Ghenghis Khan and the Central Asian Steppe Followed by Regional ReassertionPETER FIBIGER BANG18. The Mongol Empire and the Unification of EurasiaNIKOLAY KRADIN19. The Ming EmpireDAVID M. ROBINSON20. The Delhi Sultanate as EmpireSUNIL KUMAR21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealth of Medieval Islam and Western ChristendomJACOB TULLBERG22. The Venetian EmpireLUCIANO PEZZOLO23. The Mali and Songhay EmpiresBRUCE S. HALLPart 5. Another WorldThe Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the Precolonial AmericasPETER FIBIGER BANG24. The Aztec EmpireMICHAEL E. SMITH AND MAËLLE SERGHERAERT25. The Inca EmpireR. ALAN COVEYPart 6. The Great ConfluenceThe Culmination of Universal Empires and the Conquest of the New World: Agrarian Consolidation and the Rise of European Commercial and Colonial Empires (1450-1750)PETER FIBIGER BANG26. The Ottoman EmpireDARIUSZ KOLODZIEJCZYK27. The Mughal EmpireRAJEEV KINRA28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1757JOSEP M. DELGADO AND JOSEP M. FRADERA29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability of Manchu RulePAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822)FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet OrbisLEONARD BLUSSÉ32. The First British Empire: Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy, 1603-1815NICHOLAS CANNYPart 7. The Global Turn The Age of European Colonialism, Subjection of Old Agrarian Empires to the European-Led World Economy and Nationalist Secessions (1750-1914)PETER FIBIGER BANG33. Deconstructing the British Empire: Between Repression and ReformC. A. BAYLY34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its EmpiresDAVID TODD35. The Russian Empire, 1453-1917DOMINIC LIEVEN36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis, 1762-1898JOSEP M. FRADERA37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century: "Manifest Destiny"AMY S. GREENBERG38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American NomadsPEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline, 1774-1937MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS AND RANA MITTER40. The Sokoto CaliphateMURRAY LASTPart 8. The 20th Century The Collapse of Colonial Empires and the Rise of Super-PowersPETER FIBIGER BANG41. The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the World WarsDANIEL HEDINGER AND MORITZ VON BRESCIUS42. Decolonization and NeocolonialismSTUART WARD43. The Soviet UnionGEOFFREY HOSKING44. "America's Global Imperium"ANDREW PRESTON45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire?FREDERICK COOPERIndex of Places, Names and Events
