Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
IntroductionDecline, Collapse, Fall, or just Transformation: Diverging Ends of Empires through Time and Space
Antiquity
Der Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von AkkadeThe Decline of the Ur III dynasty - The End of an Empire and its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian SocietiesThe Collapse of the Hittitie KingdomThe End of New Kingdom EgyptThe End of the Neo-Assyrian EmpireThe "End" of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in DialogueThe End of the Roman Empire: Civil Wars, the Imperial Monarchy, and the End of AntiquityThe End of the Parthian Arsacid EmpireThe End of the Ērānsahar: The Decline of the Sasanian EmpireThe End of the Kushan Empire
Islam/Muslim World
From Universalism to RegionalismThe Question of the Break-Up of the Abbasid Empire RevisitedThe End of the Mongol EmpireThe End of the Timurid Empire
Africa, Asia, China
The Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th cent. AD): An Environmental Disaster or the End of a Political Process?What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty?Thoughts about The Decentralization of the Mughal EmpireHow do Empires Fall? Two Case Studies from Pre-modern Southeast Asia
The Americas
The Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21
Middle Age and Modern History
The Fall of the Napoleonic EmpireDas Ende des Spanischen KolonialreichesThe End of the Portuguese Colonial EmpireDas Ende des polnisch-litauischen Gro reichs als Diskussionsfrage
The End of World War I
Structural Problems, Personal Failure or just Contingency? The End of the Russian EmpireThe End of the German Empire 1918?The End of the Habsburg MonarchyThe Long Lasting End of the Ottoman Empire
The End of World War II and the Cold War
Das Ende des faschistischen ImperiumsThe Rise and Fall of Hitler's Empire (1933-1945)The End of the USSRA Never - Ending Empire? The Decline of the United KingdomAmerica's Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition