Overview
- New Insights in Universal History
- Comparative Research in the Field of Empires
- First Volume on the Topic
Part of the book series: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History (UUKS)
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The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires.
All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Gehler is professor of history at the University of Hildesheim and Jean Monnet Chair for European Integration Studies, as well as Senior Fellow at the Center of European Integration Research/University of Bonn, Germany and professor (egyetemi tanár) at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.
Robert Rollinger is professor of ancient history and ancient near eastern studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Wrocław, Poland (2021-2025) holding the NAWA Chair “From the Achaemenids to the Romans: Contextualizing empire and its longue-durée developments”.
Philipp Strobl is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a lecturer at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany, where he leads a teaching project funded by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The End of Empires
Editors: Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl
Series Title: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36876-0
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-36875-3Published: 22 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-36876-0Published: 21 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-3780
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3799
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 744
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Ancient Europe, Asian History, African History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Latin American History, History of the Middle East