Contents

Volume 2

The History of Empires

List of Contributors xi

List of Figures, Tables and Maps xix

Prolegomena xxv

Peter Fibiger Bang

PART I. BRONZE TO IRON AGE

The Near-Eastern “Invention” of Empire (Third Millennium to 300 bce) 1

Peter Fibiger Bang

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Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia

2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires 43

Piotr Steinkeller

3. The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire 73

Gojko Barjamovic

4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander 111 Matthew W Waters

5. Ancient Mediterranean City-State Empires: Athens, Carthage,

Early Rome 137

Walter Scheidel

PART II. THE CLASSICAL AGE

Culminating in the Formation of Large World Empires on the Margins of Eurasia: The Mediterranean and China (323 bce-6oo ce) 159

Peter Fibiger Bang

6. Hellenistic Empires: The Dynasties of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids 167

Christelle Fischer-Bovet

7. The Mauryan Empire 198

Himanshu Prabha Ray

8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han 218

Mark Edward Lewis

9. The Roman Empire 240

Peter Fibiger Bang

10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires 290

Matthew P. Canepa

11. The Kushan Empire 325

Craig Benjamin

PART III. THE ECUMENIC TURN

Eclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600-1200) 347

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12. The Caliphate 355

Andrew Marsham

13. The Tang Empire 380

Mark Edward Lewis

14. Srivijaya 401

John N. Miksic

15. The Khmer Empire 430

Michael D. Coe

16. The Byzantine Empire (641-1453 ce) 450

Anthony Kaldellis

17. Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire, and Its Successors 468

Rosamond McKitterick

PART IV. THE MONGOL MOMENT

The Rise of Chinggis Khan and the Central Asian Steppe, Followed

by Regional Reassertion 499

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Nikolay N. Kradin

19. The Ming Empire 533

David M. Robinson

20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire 571

Sunil Kumar

21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealths of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom 597 Jacob Tullberg

22. The Venetian Empire 621

Luciano Pezzolo

23. The Mali and Songhay Empires 648

Bruce S. Hall

PART V. ANOTHER WORLD

The Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in

the Precolonial Americas 665

Peter Fibiger Bang

24. The Aztec Empire 671

Michael E. Smith and Maelle Sergheraert

25. The Inca Empire 692

R. Alan Covey

PART VI. THE GREAT CONFLUENCE

The Culmination of Universal Empires and the Conquest of the

New World: Agrarian Consolidation and the Rise of European Commercial and Colonial Empires (1450-1750) 719

Peter Fibiger Bang

26. The Ottoman Empire 729

Dariusz Kolodziejczyk

27. The Mughal Empire 751

Rajeev Kinra

28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire (1492-1757) 789

Josep M. Delgado and Josep M. Fradera

29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and

the Stability of Manchu Rule 810

Pamela Kyle Crossley

30. The Portuguese Empire (1415-1822) 832

Francisco Bethencourt

31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis 862

Leonard Blusse

32. The First British Empire: Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of

the British Monarchy (1603-1815) 884

Nicholas Canny

PART VII. THE GLOBAL TURN

The Age of European Colonialism, Subjection of Old Agrarian Empires to the European-Led World Economy, and Nationalist Secessions (1750-1914) 909

Peter Fibiger Bang

33. Deconstructing the British Empire: Between Repression

and Reform 921

C. A. Bayly

34. An Imperial Nation-State: France and Its Empires 941

David Todd

35. The Russian Empire (1453-1917) 964

Dominic Lieven

36. Late Spanish Empire: Reform and Crisis (1762-1898) 989

Josep M. Fradera

37. US Expansionism during the Nineteenth Century:

“Manifest Destiny” 1011

Amy S. Greenberg

38. The Kinetic Empires of Native American Nomads 1035

Pekka Hämäläinen

39. Ottoman Turkey and Qing China: Response and Decline

(1774-1937) 1058

Michael A. Reynolds and Rana Mitter

40. The Sokoto Caliphate 1082

Murray Last

PART VIII. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Collapse of Colonial Empires and the Rise of Superpowers 1111

Peter Fibiger Bang

41. The German and Japanese Empires: Great Power Competition and

the World Wars in Trans-Imperial Perspective 1123

Daniel Hedinger and Moritz von Brescius

42. Decolonization and Neocolonialism 1161

Stuart Ward

43. The Soviet Union 1187

Geoffrey Hosking

44. America's Global Imperium 1217

Andrew Preston

45. Epilogue: Beyond Empire? 1249

Frederick Cooper

Index of Places, Names, and Events. 1279