How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambiti

The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all histori

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, a

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities toget

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia,