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Short-term Empires in World History

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Editors:
  1. Robert Rollinger

    1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  2. Julian Degen

    1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  3. Michael Gehler

    1. Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

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  • First publication ever on this topic
  • Comparative research on the short-term empires
  • Clearly structured and a uniform and consistent approach

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Approaching Short-Term Empires in World History, a First Attempt

    • Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, Michael Gehler
    Pages 1-21

  3. The European Union: A Short-Term Empire?

    • Michael Gehler
    Pages 23-55

  4. The Hunnic Empire of Attila

    • Peter Heather
    Pages 57-86

  5. The Timurid Empire

    • Beatrice F. Manz
    Pages 87-101

  6. The Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204–1261): Rise and Fall of a Short-Term State in the Romania

    • Ekaterini Mitsiou
    Pages 103-128

  7. Mithradates VI and the Pontic Empire

    • Sabine Müller
    Pages 129-153

  8. The Ghaznavids of Eastern Iran, a Postcolonial Muslim Empire

    • Lucian Reinfandt
    Pages 155-165

  9. Because Empire Means Forever: Babylon and Imperial Disposition

    • Seth Richardson
    Pages 167-187

  10. The Medes of the 7th and 6th c. BCE: A Short-Term Empire or Rather a Short-Term Confederacy?

    • Robert Rollinger
    Pages 189-213

  11. In a League of Its Own? Nāder Šāh and His Empire

    • Giorgio Rota
    Pages 215-226

  12. The Barcids and Hannibal

    • Kai Ruffing
    Pages 227-244

  13. Theoderic and the Ostrogoths—a Short-Term Empire? Decapitated or Defective?

    • Christoph Schäfer
    Pages 245-261

  14. The Rise of Hitler’s Empire and Its Apex (1933–1942)

    • Arnold Suppan
    Pages 263-305

  15. From Warlord to Emperor: The Careers of Shamshi-Adad and Hammurabi

    • Marc Van De Mieroop
    Pages 307-316

  16. The ‘Empire’ of the Hephthalites

    • Josef Wiesehöfer, Robert Rollinger
    Pages 317-329

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 331-344
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About this book

The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much smaller dimension run as fast as the process of wide-ranging conquest and expansion. The volume singles out a series of such “short-term empires” and aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach by developing a general set of questions that guarantee the possibility to compare and distinguish. This way it intends to examine not only already well established empires but also to illuminate forgotten ones.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen

  • Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Michael Gehler

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Short-term Empires in World History

  • Editors: Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, Michael Gehler

  • Series Title: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29435-9

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-29434-2Published: 05 June 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-29435-9Published: 04 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2524-3780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-3799

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 344

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ancient History, Modern History

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