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Author: Peter Fibiger Bang (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen) ,
C. A. Bayly (Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge) ,
Walter Scheidel (Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History, Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History, Stanford University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 25.70cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 18.30cm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780199772360
ISBN 10: 0199772363
Pages: 584
Publication Date: 03 March 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The juxtaposition of various empires makes fascinating reading. These very engaging volumes will be a delightful read for any scholars interested in the history of empires. They will also make an excellent addition to any collection as a good general study of empires and an excellent starting point for research into specific empires. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * A veritable milestone-a project bringing together the top authorities in academe for a discussion on divergence and commonality of empires across history. The dimensions here are truly global unlike the Eurocentric framework that blighted empire studies from 30 years ago. In that sense and in many other ways, this History is unsurpassed. * Explorations in World History * The Oxford World History of Empire (OWHE) delivers a comprehensive and confidently authoritative account of the phenomenon that we label, as a matter of convenience, 'empire', from the third millennium B.C.E. right up to the present day…. This is a serious and important work of scholarship, and for those willing to plumb its depths there are many empirical and conceptual riches on offer.... The second volume of OWHE is an invaluable reference work on the rise and fall of empires over the course of several millennia of historical change, with rich empirical treatments of how empires operated as systems of power.... It is surely the best guide we now have to this protean form of social and political organisation, and it is only through understanding its deep past and current instantiations that we can hope to plan for a genuinely post-imperial future. * Journal of Roman Studies *
The juxtaposition of various empires makes fascinating reading. These very engaging volumes will be a delightful read for any scholars interested in the history of empires. They will also make an excellent addition to any collection as a good general study of empires and an excellent starting point for research into specific empires. Highly recommended. -- CHOICE
Author Information
Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Copenhagen. C. A. Bayly was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge. Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University.
