Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The volume will focus on a comparative level on a selected group of "empires" which are generally not in the focus of empire studies. They are studied in detail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history and reception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an important element in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less underdeveloped. The volume singles out a series of such "forgotten empires". It aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach. It develops a general set of questions that make possible to compare and distinguish these entities. This way the volume intends to examine and to illuminate empires that are generally ignored by modern scholarship.
Synopsis
Introduction.- I. Theories of Empires: an ongoing debate.- II. Empires and Bureaucracies.- III. Europe Europa.- IV. Early Medieval Steppe Empires in Europe.- V. The Mediterranean and the Near East Das Mittelmeer und Vorderasien.- VI. Central Asia before Islam.- VII. Iranian and Central Asian Formations of Empires in the Shadow of Mongol Rule.- VIII. Southeast Asia.- IX. Africa and Eurocentrism.- X. The Americas Die Amerikas.- XI. General Observations and Considerations. Mit Beitr gen von Graham CONNAH, Alexander DEMANDT, Boguslaw DYBAŚ, Sven EXTERNBRINK, Tilman FRASCH, Michael GEHLER, Leonhard HARDING, Birgitt HOFFMANN, Milinda HOO, Doris KURELLA, Bernhard PALME, J rgen PAUL, Walter POHL, Friedrich P HL, Khodadad REZAKHANI, Robert ROLLINGER, Kai RUFFING, Arno SONDEREGGER, Arnold SUPPAN, Se il ULUISIK, Matthew W. WATERS, Josef WIESEH FER, Daniel ZIEMANN