The end of empires / Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl, editors.
Gehler, Michael, editor.; Rollinger, Robert, editor.; Strobl, Philipp (Philipp Luis), editor.
2022
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The end of empires / Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl, editors.
ISBN
9783658368760 (electronic bk.)
3658368764 (electronic bk.)
9783658368753
3658368756
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36876-0
Published
Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2022]
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©2022
Language
English
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1 online resource (xvi, 744 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-658-36876-0 doi
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JC359
Dewey Decimal Classification
325/.32
Summary
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 humankinds 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 tanar) at the Andrassy 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 Wrocaw, Poland (2021-2025) holding the NAWA Chair "From the Achaemenids to the Romans: Contextualizing empire and its longue-duree developments." Philipp Strobl is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a lecturer at the Stiftung Universitat Hildesheim, Germany, where he leads a teaching project funded by the Niedersachsisches Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Kultur.
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Gehler, Michael, editor.
Rollinger, Robert, editor.
Strobl, Philipp (Philipp Luis), editor.
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Universal- und kulturhistorische studien.
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Intro
Preface
References
Contents
Contributors
Decline, Erosion, Implosion and Fall, or Just Transformation? Diverging Ends of Empires Through Time and Space
1 General Observations
2 More Specific Observations
3 Summaries
3.1 Antiquity
The End of the Mesopotamian `Empire ́of Akkad
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 Hittite 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 Ērānsahar: The Decline of the Sasanian Empire
The End of the Kushan Empire
3.2 Islam and 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
3.3 Africa, Asia, China

The Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th CE): 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
3.4 The Americas
The Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire
The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21
3.5 Middle Ages and Modern History
The Fall of the Napoleonic Empire
The End of the Spanish Colonial Empire
The End of the Portuguese Colonial Empire

The End of the Polish-Lithuanian Empire
3.6 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
3.7 The End of World War II and the Cold War
The Decline and Breakdown of the Fascist Italian Pseudo-Post-Roman Empire
The Rise and Fall of Hitlerś Empire (1933-1945)
The End of the USSR
A Never-Ending Empire? The Decline of the United Kingdom
Americaś Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition

4 Final Considerations
Bibliography
Select Bibliography on the `Imperial Turn ́
Part I: Antiquity
Der Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von Akkade
1 Die Begründung und Konsolidierung des Reiches von Akkade
2 Krise und erneuter Machthöhepunkt des Reiches von Akkade
3 Krise und Untergang des Reiches von Akkade
4 Reflexion des Untergangs des Reiches von Akkade und Fazit
Literatur
The Decline of the Ur III Dynasty: The End of an Empire and Its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian Societies
1 Prolegomena: Pre-history

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