Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.

Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.

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 histori

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, a

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia,