The Oxford world history of empire. Volume two, The history of empires / edited by Peter Fibiger Bang, C.A. Bayly, and Walter Scheidel.
Contributor(s): Bang, Peter F. (Peter Fibiger) [editor.] | Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan) [editor.] | Scheidel, Walter [editor.]
.Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (1352 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197532799 (ebook) :.Other title: World history of empire | Empire | History of empires.Subject(s): Imperialism -- History | World historyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197532768DDC classification: 325.32 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This is a 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. Volume Two 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.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is a 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. Volume Two 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.
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