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 I: The Imperial Experience is
dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive
theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen
chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire
across cultures and through the ages. The broad range of
perspectives includes: scale, world systems and geopolitics,
military organization, political economy and elite formation,
monumental display, law, mapping and registering, religion,
literature, the politics of difference, resistance, energy
transfers, ecology, memories, and the decline of empires. This
broad set of topics is united by the central theme of power,
examined under four headings: systems of power, cultures of power,
disparities of power, and memory and decline. Taken together, these
chapters offer a comprehensive and unique view of the imperial
experience in world history. Volume II: 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.
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