Short-term Empires in World History
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Beschreibung
The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much smaller dimension run as fast as the process of wide-ranging conquest and expansion. The volume singles out a series of such “short-term empires” and aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach by developing a general set of questions that guarantee the possibility to compare and distinguish. This way it intends to examine not only already well established empires but also to illuminate forgotten ones.
Contents
With contributions by: Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, Michael Gehler, Peter Heather, Beatrice F. Manz, Ekaterini Mitsiou, Sabine Müller, Lucian Reinfandt, Seth Richardson, Giorgio Rota, Kai Ruffing, Christoph Schäfer, Arnold Suppan, Marc Van De Mieroop, Josef Wiesehöfer.
Audienceresearchers, libraries, students
The EditorsRobert Rollinger is professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck.Julian Degen is postgraduate at the University of Innsbruck.Michael Gehler is professor of History at the University of Hildesheim.
The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much smaller dimension run as fast as the process of wide-ranging conquest and expansion. The volume singles out a series of such “short-term empires” and aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach by developing a general set of questions that guarantee the possibility to compare and distinguish. This way it intends to examine not only already well established empires but also to illuminate forgotten ones.
First publication ever on this topic Comparative research on the short-term empires Clearly structured and a uniform and consistent approach
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Robert Rollinger
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