The End of Empires

ISBN-13: 9783658368753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 744 str.

Michael Gehler; Robert Rollinger; Philipp Strobl

Opis

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires.All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

Spis treści

Introduction

Decline, Collapse, Fall, or just Transformation: Diverging Ends of Empires through Time and Space

Antiquity

Der Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von Akkade

The Decline of the Ur III dynasty – The End of an Empire and its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian Societies

The Collapse of the Hittitie Kingdom

The End of New Kingdom Egypt

The End of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

The “End” of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in Dialogue

The End of the Roman Empire: Civil Wars, the Imperial Monarchy, and the End of Antiquity

The End of the Parthian Arsacid Empire

The End of the Ērānšahar: The Decline of the Sasanian Empire

The End of the Kushan Empire

Islam/Muslim World

From Universalism to Regionalism

The Question of the Break-Up of the Abbasid Empire Revisited

The End of the Mongol Empire

The End of the Timurid Empire

Africa, Asia, China

The Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th cent. AD): An Environmental Disaster or the End of a Political Process?

What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty?

Thoughts about The Decentralization of the Mughal Empire

How do Empires Fall? Two Case Studies from Pre-modern Southeast Asia

The Americas

The Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire 

The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21

Middle Age and Modern History

The Fall of the Napoleonic Empire

Das Ende des Spanischen Kolonialreiches

The End of the Portuguese Colonial Empire

Das Ende des polnisch-litauischen Großreichs als Diskussionsfrage

The End of World War I

Structural Problems, Personal Failure or just Contingency? The End of the Russian Empire

The End of the German Empire 1918?

The End of the Habsburg Monarchy

The Long Lasting End of the Ottoman Empire

The End of World War II and the Cold War

Das Ende des faschistischen Imperiums

The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Empire (1933–1945)

The End of the USSR

A Never – Ending Empire? The Decline of the United Kingdom

America’s Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition

O autorze

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 and professor (egyetemi tanár) at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.

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”.

Philipp Strobl is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a lecturer at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany, where he leads a teaching project funded by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur.

Blurb

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires.

All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.

The Editors

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 and professor (egyetemi tanár) at the Andrássy University Budapest, Hungary.

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”.

Philipp Strobl is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a lecturer at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany, where he leads a teaching project funded by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur.