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.

The juxtaposition of various empires makes fascinating reading. These very engaging volumes will be a delightful read for any scholars interested in the history of empires. They will also make an excellent addition to any collection as a good general study of empires and an excellent starting point for research into specific empires.

• Volume IList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG The Imperial Experience1. Empire - a World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and Synthesis PETER FIBIGER BANG2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution WALTER SCHEIDEL3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity Systems CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN AND DMYTRO KHUTKYY4. Military Organization IAN MORRIS5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the Formation of Central and Regional Elites JOHN HALDON6. Imperial Monumentalism, Pageantry, Styles of Comportment and Forms of Consumption: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul CECILY J. HILSDALE7. Law, Bureaucracy and the Practice of Government and Rule CAROLINE HUMFRESS8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge LAURA HOSTETLER9. Empire and Religion AMIRA K. BENNISON10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism JAVED MAJEED11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Social Hierarchies and Cultural Identities JANE BURBANK AND FREDERICK COOPER12. Resistance, Rebellion and the Subaltern KIM A. WAGNER13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Energy Transfers ALF HORNBORG14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE - c.1900 CE EUGENE ANDERSON AND JAMES BEATTIE15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma PHIROZE VASUNIA16. The End of Empires JOHN. A. HALL Volume IIThe History of EmpiresList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG Part 1. Bronze to Iron AgeThe 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 GARCÍA2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires PIOTR STEINKELLER3. Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire GOJKO BARJAMOVIC4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander MATTHEW W. WATERS5. 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-BOVET7. The Mauryan Empire HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han MARK EDWARD LEWIS9. The Roman Empire PETER FIBIGER BANG10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires MATTHEW P. CANEPA11. The Kushan Empire CRAIG BENJAMIN Part 3. The Ecumenic TurnEclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200) PETER FIBIGER BANG 12. The Caliphate ANDREW MARSHAM13. The Tang Empire MARK EDWARD LEWIS14. Srivijaya JOHN N. MIKSIC15. The Khmer Empire MICHAEL D. COE16. The Byzantine Empire, 641-1453 AD ANTHONY KALDELLIS17. 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 KRADIN19. The Ming Empire DAVID M. ROBINSON20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire SUNIL KUMAR21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealth of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom JACOB TULLBERG22. The Venetian Empire LUCIANO PEZZOLO23. The Mali and Songhay Empires BRUCE S. HALL Part 5. Another WorldThe Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the Precolonial Americas PETER FIBIGER BANG 24. The Aztec Empire MICHAEL E. SMITH AND MAËLLE SERGHERAERT25. The Inca Empire R. ALAN COVEY Part 6. The Great ConfluenceThe 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 KOLODZIEJCZYK27. The Mughal Empire RAJEEV KINRA28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1757 JOSEP M. DELGADO AND JOSEP M. FRADERA29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability of Manchu Rule PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822) FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis LEONARD BLUSSÉ32. 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. BAYLY34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its Empires DAVID TODD35. The Russian Empire, 1453-1917 DOMINIC LIEVEN36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis, 1762-1898 JOSEP M. FRADERA37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century: "Manifest Destiny" AMY S. GREENBERG38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American Nomads PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline, 1774-1937 MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS AND RANA MITTER40. 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 BRESCIUS42. Decolonization and Neocolonialism STUART WARD43. The Soviet Union GEOFFREY HOSKING44. "America's Global Imperium" ANDREW PRESTON45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire? FREDERICK COOPER Index of Places, Names and Events

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.

The juxtaposition of various empires makes fascinating reading. These very engaging volumes will be a delightful read for any scholars interested in the history of empires. They will also make an excellent addition to any collection as a good general study of empires and an excellent starting point for research into specific empires.

• Volume IList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG The Imperial Experience1. Empire - a World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and Synthesis PETER FIBIGER BANG2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution WALTER SCHEIDEL3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity Systems CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN AND DMYTRO KHUTKYY4. Military Organization IAN MORRIS5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the Formation of Central and Regional Elites JOHN HALDON6. Imperial Monumentalism, Pageantry, Styles of Comportment and Forms of Consumption: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul CECILY J. HILSDALE7. Law, Bureaucracy and the Practice of Government and Rule CAROLINE HUMFRESS8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge LAURA HOSTETLER9. Empire and Religion AMIRA K. BENNISON10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism JAVED MAJEED11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Social Hierarchies and Cultural Identities JANE BURBANK AND FREDERICK COOPER12. Resistance, Rebellion and the Subaltern KIM A. WAGNER13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Energy Transfers ALF HORNBORG14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE - c.1900 CE EUGENE ANDERSON AND JAMES BEATTIE15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma PHIROZE VASUNIA16. The End of Empires JOHN. A. HALL Volume IIThe History of EmpiresList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG Part 1. Bronze to Iron AgeThe 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 GARCÍA2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires PIOTR STEINKELLER3. Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire GOJKO BARJAMOVIC4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander MATTHEW W. WATERS5. 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-BOVET7. The Mauryan Empire HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han MARK EDWARD LEWIS9. The Roman Empire PETER FIBIGER BANG10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires MATTHEW P. CANEPA11. The Kushan Empire CRAIG BENJAMIN Part 3. The Ecumenic TurnEclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200) PETER FIBIGER BANG 12. The Caliphate ANDREW MARSHAM13. The Tang Empire MARK EDWARD LEWIS14. Srivijaya JOHN N. MIKSIC15. The Khmer Empire MICHAEL D. COE16. The Byzantine Empire, 641-1453 AD ANTHONY KALDELLIS17. 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 KRADIN19. The Ming Empire DAVID M. ROBINSON20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire SUNIL KUMAR21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealth of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom JACOB TULLBERG22. The Venetian Empire LUCIANO PEZZOLO23. The Mali and Songhay Empires BRUCE S. HALL Part 5. Another WorldThe Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the Precolonial Americas PETER FIBIGER BANG 24. The Aztec Empire MICHAEL E. SMITH AND MAËLLE SERGHERAERT25. The Inca Empire R. ALAN COVEY Part 6. The Great ConfluenceThe 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 KOLODZIEJCZYK27. The Mughal Empire RAJEEV KINRA28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1757 JOSEP M. DELGADO AND JOSEP M. FRADERA29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability of Manchu Rule PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822) FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis LEONARD BLUSSÉ32. 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. BAYLY34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its Empires DAVID TODD35. The Russian Empire, 1453-1917 DOMINIC LIEVEN36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis, 1762-1898 JOSEP M. FRADERA37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century: "Manifest Destiny" AMY S. GREENBERG38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American Nomads PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline, 1774-1937 MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS AND RANA MITTER40. 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 BRESCIUS42. Decolonization and Neocolonialism STUART WARD43. The Soviet Union GEOFFREY HOSKING44. "America's Global Imperium" ANDREW PRESTON45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire? FREDERICK COOPER Index of Places, Names and Events

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.

The juxtaposition of various empires makes fascinating reading. These very engaging volumes will be a delightful read for any scholars interested in the history of empires. They will also make an excellent addition to any collection as a good general study of empires and an excellent starting point for research into specific empires.

• Volume IList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG The Imperial Experience1. Empire - a World History: Anatomy and Concept, Theory and Synthesis PETER FIBIGER BANG2. The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution WALTER SCHEIDEL3. The Evolution of Geopolitics and Imperialism in Interpolity Systems CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN AND DMYTRO KHUTKYY4. Military Organization IAN MORRIS5. The Political Economy of Empire: "Imperial Capital" and the Formation of Central and Regional Elites JOHN HALDON6. Imperial Monumentalism, Pageantry, Styles of Comportment and Forms of Consumption: The Inter-Imperial Obelisk in Istanbul CECILY J. HILSDALE7. Law, Bureaucracy and the Practice of Government and Rule CAROLINE HUMFRESS8. Mapping, Registering, and Ordering: Time, Space, and Knowledge LAURA HOSTETLER9. Empire and Religion AMIRA K. BENNISON10. Literature of Empire: Difference, Creativity, and Cosmopolitanism JAVED MAJEED11. Empires and the Politics of Difference: Social Hierarchies and Cultural Identities JANE BURBANK AND FREDERICK COOPER12. Resistance, Rebellion and the Subaltern KIM A. WAGNER13. Imperial Metabolism: Empire as a Process of Energy Transfers ALF HORNBORG14. Ecology: Environments and Empires in World History, 3000 BCE - c.1900 CE EUGENE ANDERSON AND JAMES BEATTIE15. Memories of Empire: Literature and Art, Nostalgia and Trauma PHIROZE VASUNIA16. The End of Empires JOHN. A. HALL Volume IIThe History of EmpiresList of ContributorsProlegomena PETER FIBIGER BANG Part 1. Bronze to Iron AgeThe 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 GARCÍA2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires PIOTR STEINKELLER3. Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire GOJKO BARJAMOVIC4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander MATTHEW W. WATERS5. 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-BOVET7. The Mauryan Empire HIMANSHU PRABHA RAY8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han MARK EDWARD LEWIS9. The Roman Empire PETER FIBIGER BANG10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires MATTHEW P. CANEPA11. The Kushan Empire CRAIG BENJAMIN Part 3. The Ecumenic TurnEclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200) PETER FIBIGER BANG 12. The Caliphate ANDREW MARSHAM13. The Tang Empire MARK EDWARD LEWIS14. Srivijaya JOHN N. MIKSIC15. The Khmer Empire MICHAEL D. COE16. The Byzantine Empire, 641-1453 AD ANTHONY KALDELLIS17. 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 KRADIN19. The Ming Empire DAVID M. ROBINSON20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire SUNIL KUMAR21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealth of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom JACOB TULLBERG22. The Venetian Empire LUCIANO PEZZOLO23. The Mali and Songhay Empires BRUCE S. HALL Part 5. Another WorldThe Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the Precolonial Americas PETER FIBIGER BANG 24. The Aztec Empire MICHAEL E. SMITH AND MAËLLE SERGHERAERT25. The Inca Empire R. ALAN COVEY Part 6. The Great ConfluenceThe 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 KOLODZIEJCZYK27. The Mughal Empire RAJEEV KINRA28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire, 1492-1757 JOSEP M. DELGADO AND JOSEP M. FRADERA29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability of Manchu Rule PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822) FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis LEONARD BLUSSÉ32. 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. BAYLY34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its Empires DAVID TODD35. The Russian Empire, 1453-1917 DOMINIC LIEVEN36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis, 1762-1898 JOSEP M. FRADERA37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century: "Manifest Destiny" AMY S. GREENBERG38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American Nomads PEKKA HÄMÄLÄINEN39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline, 1774-1937 MICHAEL A. REYNOLDS AND RANA MITTER40. 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 BRESCIUS42. Decolonization and Neocolonialism STUART WARD43. The Soviet Union GEOFFREY HOSKING44. "America's Global Imperium" ANDREW PRESTON45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire? FREDERICK COOPER Index of Places, Names and Events