Short-term Empires in World History

Robert Rollinger is professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck.Julian Degen is postgraduate at the University of Innsbruck.Michael Gehler is professor of History at the University of Hildesheim.

• Preface.- Approaching Short-term Empires in World History, a first Attempt.- The European Union: A new Post-democratic, Post-modern, and Post-national Short-term Empire?.- The Hunnic Empire of Attila.- The Timurid Empire.- The Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1261): Rise and Fall of a Short-term State in the Romania.- Mithradates VI and the Pontic Empire.- The Ghaznavids of eastern Iran, a postcolonial Muslim Empire.- Because Empire Means Forever: Babylon and Imperial Disposition.- The Medes of the 7th and 6th c. BCE: a Short-term Empire or rather a Short term Confederacy?.- In a League of Its Own? Nāder Šāh and His Empire.- The Barcids and Hannibal.- The Ostrogothic Empire of Theoderic the Great.- The Rise and Decline of Hitler’s Empire (1933–1942).- From Warlord to Emperor: the careers of Shamshi-Adad and Hammurabi.- The ‘Empire’ of the Hephthalites.