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The Encyclopedia of Empire - 4 Volume Set

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- Detailliertes und vergleichendes vierbändiges Referenzwerk, das alle Aspekte zur Geschichte von Weltreichen abdeckt ? von deren Anfängen bis zur heutigen Zeit.
- Bietet über 400 fachlich geprüfte Einträge: von kurzen Definitionen bis hin zu diskursiven Artikeln in Form von Essays zu wichtigen Themen und Themenbereichen.
- Behandelt einzelne Weltreiche, prägende Persönlichkeiten, Ereignisse und Vorstellungen sowie vergleichende Themen, z. B. Begleitumstände, Sklaverei, Gesetze und Waffen.
- Spiegelt das in jüngster Zeit neu entstandene Interesse an diesem interdisziplinären und dynamischen Studiengebiet wider und beleuchtet dabei sowohl neuere Ansätze als auch traditionelle Themen.

List of contents










Volume I
Lexicon vii
List of figures xxi
List of maps xxv
Editor-in-chief xxvii
Assistant editor xxix
Associate editors xxxi
Advisory board xxxiii
Notes on contributors xxxv
Preface lxxxi
Empires in world history: characteristics, concepts, and consequences lxxxiii
Maps cxi
Empire A-C 1-644
Volume II
Empire D-J 645-1232
Volume III
Empire K-R 1233-1842
Volume IV
Empire S-Z 1843-2302
Index 2303


About the author










John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at Lancaster University. In addition he holds honorary professorships of St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has edited the Studies in Imperialism series of Manchester University Press for the past 30 years, a series now encompassing over 100 books. He has authored and edited many publications on the history of the British Empire and has travelled extensively throughout the former empires of Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Summary

Available online or as a four-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Empire provides exceptional in-depth, comparative coverage of empires throughout human history and across the globe.

Product details

Authors JM MacKenzie, John Mackenzie
Assisted by Joh MacKenzie (Editor), John Mackenzie (Editor), John (Retired. Professor Emeritus of Imperial History Mackenzie (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Box
Released 31.01.2016
 
EAN 9781118440643
ISBN 978-1-118-44064-3
No. of pages 2816
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Weltgeschichte, Geschichte, History, world history

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