A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires fr

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective. In doing so, it relates current debates in international relations (IR) and politics to

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, a

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Consideri