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The End of Empires

Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

von: Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl
85,59 €
Verlag:	VS Verlag
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	21.11.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9783658368760
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	792

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Introduction<div>Decline, Collapse, Fall, or just Transformation: Diverging Ends of Empires through Time and Space</div><div><br></div><div>Antiquity</div><div><br></div><div>Der Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von Akkade</div><div>The Decline of the Ur III dynasty – The End of an Empire and its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian Societies</div><div>The Collapse of the Hittitie Kingdom</div><div>The End of New Kingdom Egypt</div><div>The End of the Neo-Assyrian Empire</div><div>The “End” of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in Dialogue</div><div>The End of the Roman Empire: Civil Wars, the Imperial Monarchy, and the End of Antiquity</div><div>The End of the Parthian Arsacid Empire</div><div>The End of the Ērānšahar: The Decline of the Sasanian Empire</div><div>The End of the Kushan Empire</div><div><br></div><div>Islam/Muslim World</div><div><br></div><div>From Universalism to Regionalism</div><div>The Question of the Break-Up of the Abbasid Empire Revisited</div><div>The End of the Mongol Empire</div><div>The End of the Timurid Empire</div><div><br></div><div>Africa, Asia, China</div><div><br></div><div>The Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th cent. AD): An Environmental Disaster or the End of a Political Process?</div><div>What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty?</div><div>Thoughts about The Decentralization of the Mughal Empire</div><div>How do Empires Fall? Two Case Studies from Pre-modern Southeast Asia</div><div><br></div><div>The Americas</div><div><br></div><div>The Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire </div><div>The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21</div><div><br></div><div>Middle Age and Modern History</div><div><br></div><div>The Fall of the Napoleonic Empire</div><div>Das Ende des Spanischen Kolonialreiches</div><div>The End of the Portuguese Colonial Empire</div><div>Das Ende des polnisch-litauischen Großreichs als Diskussionsfrage</div><div><br></div><div>The End of World War I</div><div><br></div><div>Structural Problems, Personal Failure or just Contingency? The End of the Russian Empire</div><div>The End of the German Empire 1918?</div><div>The End of the Habsburg Monarchy</div><div>The Long Lasting End of the Ottoman Empire</div><div><br></div><div>The End of World War II and the Cold War</div><div><br></div><div>Das Ende des faschistischen Imperiums</div><div>The Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Empire (1933–1945)</div><div>The End of the USSR</div><div>A Never – Ending Empire? The Decline of the United Kingdom</div>America’s Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition<div><br></div>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Michael Gehler</b> 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.</p><p><b>Robert Rollinger</b> 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”.</p><p><b>Philipp Strobl</b> 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.</p>

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<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>The Editors</b></p><p><b>Michael Gehler</b> 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.</p><p><b>Robert Rollinger</b> 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”.</p><p><b>Philipp Strobl</b> 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.</p><div><br></div>