Im 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. etablierte Kaiser Theodosius das sogenannte Palastkaisertum und verbrac...

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman...

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiqu...

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman...

Interrogates the widely held assumption that economic conditions in the Roman Empire resembled th...

This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiqu...

A 2008 study interrogating the assumption that economic conditions in the Roman Empire resembled ...

The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensiv...

This is the first world history of empire from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combin...

Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey...

Volume Two tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state f...

Tracing the evolution of the state from its beginnings to the early Middle Ages, this comprehensi...