The Oxford world history of empire. Volume 2, The history of empires / edited by Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, Walter Scheidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bang, Peter Fibiger, Editor.

Contributor:

Bang, Peter F. (Peter Fibiger), editor.

Bayly, C. A., editor.

Scheidel, Walter, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource maps.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2020

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.

Contents:

The Oxford World History of Empire List of Contributors Prolegomena Part I. Bronze to Iron Age Part II. The Classical Age Part III. The Ecumenic Turn Part IV. The Mongol Moment Part V. Another World Part VI. The Great Confluence Part VII. The Global Turn Part VIII. The Twentieth Century

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 16, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753278-0

0-19-753279-9

0-19-753277-2

OCLC:

1256673143