The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires (2021) 1st ed. by Peter Fibiger Bang

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197532764
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197532768
• Author(s) : Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, Walter Scheidel

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 contents:

1. Egypt, Old to New Kingdom (2686–​1069 bce)
2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires
3. The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire
4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander
5. Ancient Mediterranean City-​State Empires: Athens, Carthage, Early Rome
Part II. The Classical Age
Culminating in the Formation of Large World Empires on the Margins of Eurasia: The Mediterranean a
6. Hellenistic Empires: The Dynasties of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids
7. The Mauryan Empire
8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han
9. The Roman Empire
10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires
11. The Kushan Empire
Part III. The Ecumenic Turn
Eclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600–​1200)
12. The Caliphate
13. The Tang Empire

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