Empires to be remembered

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.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”.

• Introduction.- I. Theories of Empires: an ongoing debate.- II. Empires and Bureaucracies.- III. Europe | Europa.- IV. Early Medieval Steppe Empires in Europe.- V. The Mediterranean and the Near East | Das Mittelmeer und Vorderasien.- VI. Central Asia before Islam.- VII. Iranian and Central Asian Formations of Empires in the Shadow of Mongol Rule.- VIII. Southeast Asia.- IX. Africa and Eurocentrism.- X. The Americas | Die Amerikas.- XI. General Observations and Considerations. Mit Beiträgen von Graham CONNAH, Alexander DEMANDT, Bogusław DYBAŚ, Sven EXTERNBRINK, Tilman FRASCH, Michael GEHLER, Leonhard HARDING, Birgitt HOFFMANN, Milinda HOO, Doris KURELLA, Bernhard PALME, Jürgen PAUL, Walter POHL, Friedrich PÖHL, Khodadad REZAKHANI, Robert ROLLINGER, Kai RUFFING, Arno SONDEREGGER, Arnold SUPPAN, Seçil ULUISIK, Matthew W. WATERS, Josef WIESEHÖFER, Daniel ZIEMANN