The Oxford World History of Empire - Volume Two: The History of Empires (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2021
Editors:	Peter Fibiger Bang (Associate Professor of History) • C. A. Bayly (Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History) • Walter Scheidel (Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History)
Dimensions:	261 x 188 x 57mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	1292
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-753276-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-753276-4
Barcode:	9780197532768

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