How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived...

How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived...

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman...

The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the ...

A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman...

It has long been held by historians that trade and markets in the Roman Empire resembled those fo...

The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the ...

A 2008 study interrogating the assumption that economic conditions in the Roman Empire resembled ...

The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensiv...

Tracing the evolution of the state from its beginnings to the early Middle Ages, this comprehensi...

This is the first world history of empire from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combin...

Volume One is dedicated to synthesis and comparison. Following a comprehensive theoretical survey...

Volume Two tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state f...