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Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages.
List of contents
- Vol. I - The Imperial Experience
- List of Contributors
- Prolegomena
- PETER FIBIGER BANG
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey and bold world history synthesis, fifteen chapters analyze and explore the multifaceted experience of empire across cultures and through the ages.
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A veritable milestone-a project bringing together the top authorities in academe for a discussion on divergence and commonality of empires across history. The dimensions here are truly global unlike the Eurocentric framework that blighted empire studies from 30 years ago. In that sense and in many other ways, this History is unsurpassed.
