The Oxford World History of Empire

Two-Volume Set
Herausgeber: Bang, Peter Fibiger; Scheidel, Walter; Bayly, C A

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first world history of empire from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays and numerous chapters on specific empires, it provides unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 1856
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 190mm x 102mm
• Gewicht: 3514g
• ISBN-13: 9780197533970
• ISBN-10: 0197533973
• Artikelnr.: 60368469

Autorenporträt

Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. C. A. Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Volume I
* List of Contributors
* Prolegomena
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* The Imperial Experience
* 1. Empire - a World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and
Synthesis
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution
* WALTER SCHEIDEL
* 3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity
Systems
* CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN AND DMYTRO KHUTKYY
* 4. Military Organization
* IAN MORRIS
* 5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the
Formation of Central and Regional Elites
* JOHN HALDON
* 6. Imperial Monumentalism, Pageantry, Styles of Comportment and Forms
of Consumption: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul
* CECILY J. HILSDALE
* 7. Law, Bureaucracy and the Practice of Government and Rule
* CAROLINE HUMFRESS
* 8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge
* LAURA HOSTETLER
* 9. Empire and Religion
* AMIRA K. BENNISON
* 10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism
* JAVED MAJEED
* 11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Social Hierarchies and
Cultural Identities
* JANE BURBANK AND FREDERICK COOPER
* 12. Resistance, Rebellion and the Subaltern
* KIM A. WAGNER
* 13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Energy Transfers
* ALF HORNBORG
* 14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE -
c.1900 CE
* EUGENE ANDERSON AND JAMES BEATTIE
* 15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma
* PHIROZE VASUNIA
* 16. The End of Empires
* JOHN. A. HALL
* Volume II
* The History of Empires
* List of Contributors
* Prolegomena
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* Part 1. Bronze to Iron Age
* The Near-Eastern "Invention" of Empire (3rd Millennium to 300 BCE)
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 1. Egypt, Old to New Kingdom (2686-1069 BCE)
* JUAN CARLOS MORENO GARCÍA
* 2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires
* PIOTR STEINKELLER
* 3. Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire
* GOJKO BARJAMOVIC
* 4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander
* MATTHEW W. WATERS
* 5. Ancient Mediterranean City-State Empires: Athens, Carthage, Early
Rome
* WALTER SCHEIDEL
* Part 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 BANG
* 6. Hellenistic Empire: The Dynasties of the Ptolemies and the
Seleucids
* CHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET
* 7. The Mauryan Empire
* HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY
* 8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han
* MARK EDWARD LEWIS
* 9. The Roman Empire
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires
* MATTHEW P. CANEPA
* 11. The Kushan Empire
* CRAIG BENJAMIN
* Part 3. The Ecumenic Turn
* Eclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200)
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 12. The Caliphate
* ANDREW MARSHAM
* 13. The Tang Empire
* MARK EDWARD LEWIS
* 14. Srivijaya
* JOHN N. MIKSIC
* 15. The Khmer Empire
* MICHAEL D. COE
* 16. The Byzantine Empire, 641-1453 AD
* ANTHONY KALDELLIS
* 17. Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire and Its Successors
* ROSAMOND McKITTERICK
* Part 4. The Mongol Moment
* The Rise of Ghenghis Khan and the Central Asian Steppe Followed by
Regional Reassertion
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 18. The Mongol Empire and the Unification of Eurasia
* NIKOLAY KRADIN
* 19. The Ming Empire
* DAVID M. ROBINSON
* 20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire
* SUNIL KUMAR
* 21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings and Sultans: The Imperial
Commonwealth of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom
* JACOB TULLBERG
* 22. The Venetian Empire
* LUCIANO PEZZOLO
* 23. The Mali and Songhay Empires
* BRUCE S. HALL
* Part 5. Another World
* The Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the
Precolonial Americas
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 24. The Aztec Empire
* MICHAEL E. SMITH AND MAËLLE SERGHERAERT
* 25. The Inca Empire
* R. ALAN COVEY
* Part 6. The Great Confluence
* The 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 BANG
* 26. The Ottoman Empire
* DARIUSZ KOLODZIEJCZYK
* 27. The Mughal Empire
* RAJEEV KINRA
* 28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1757
* JOSEP M. DELGADO AND JOSEP M. FRADERA
* 29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability
of Manchu Rule
* PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY
* 30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822)
* FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT
* 31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis
* LEONARD BLUSSÉ
* 32. The First British Empire: Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the
British Monarchy, 1603-1815
* NICHOLAS CANNY
* Part 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 BANG
* 33. Deconstructing the British Empire: Between Repression and Reform
* C. A. BAYLY
* 34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its Empires
* DAVID TODD
* 35. The Russian Empire, 1453-1917
* DOMINIC LIEVEN
* 36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis, 1762-1898
* JOSEP M. FRADERA
* 37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century: "Manifest Destiny"
* AMY S. GREENBERG
* 38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American Nomads
* PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN
* 39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline, 1774-1937
* MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS AND RANA MITTER
* 40. The Sokoto Caliphate
* MURRAY LAST
* Part 8. The 20th Century
* The Collapse of Colonial Empires and the Rise of Super-Powers
* PETER FIBIGER BANG
* 41. The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and the
World Wars
* DANIEL HEDINGER AND MORITZ VON BRESCIUS
* 42. Decolonization and Neocolonialism
* STUART WARD
* 43. The Soviet Union
* GEOFFREY HOSKING
* 44. "America's Global Imperium"
* ANDREW PRESTON
* 45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire?
* FREDERICK COOPER
* Index of Places, Names and Events