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The Oxford World History of Empire In Two Volumes The Oxford World History of Empire Volume 2: The History of Empires Edited by PETER FIBIGER BANG C.A. BAYLY† WALTER SCHEIDEL 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 753276–8 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197532768.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America All histories, then, even histories of the “fragment” are implicitly universal histories. — C. A. Bayly (Birth of the Modern World, 2004, 8) Contents Volume 2 The History of Empires List of Contributors xi List of Figures, Tables and Maps xix Prolegomena xxv Peter Fibiger Bang PART I. BRONZE TO IRON AGE The Near- Eastern “Invention” of Empire (Third Millennium to 300 bce) 1 Peter Fibiger Bang 1. Egypt, Old to New Kingdom (2686–1 069 bce) 13 Juan Carlos Moreno García 2. The Sargonic and Ur III Empires 43 Piotr Steinkeller 3. The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire 73 Gojko Barjamovic 4. The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander 111 Matthew W. Waters 5. Ancient Mediterranean City-S tate Empires: Athens, Carthage, Early Rome 137 Walter Scheidel PART II. THE CLASSICAL AGE Culminating in the Formation of Large World Empires on the Margins of Eurasia: The Mediterranean and China (323 bce–6 00 ce) 159 Peter Fibiger Bang 6. Hellenistic Empires: The Dynasties of the Ptolemies and the Seleucids 167 Christelle Fischer- Bovet 7. The Mauryan Empire 198 Himanshu Prabha Ray 8. The First East Asian Empires: Qin and Han 218 Mark Edward Lewis viii Contents 9. The Roman Empire 240 Peter Fibiger Bang 10. The Parthian and Sasanian Empires 290 Matthew P. Canepa 11. The Kushan Empire 325 Craig Benjamin PART III. THE ECUMENIC TURN Eclipse of the Old World and the Rise of Islam (600–1 200) 347 Peter Fibiger Bang 12. The Caliphate 355 Andrew Marsham 13. The Tang Empire 380 Mark Edward Lewis 14. Śrīvijaya 401 John N. Miksic 15. The Khmer Empire 430 Michael D. Coe 16. The Byzantine Empire (641–1 453 ce) 450 Anthony Kaldellis 17. Charlemagne, the Carolingian Empire, and Its Successors 468 Rosamond McKitterick PART IV. THE MONGOL MOMENT The Rise of Chinggis Khan and the Central Asian Steppe, Followed by Regional Reassertion 499 Peter Fibiger Bang 18. The Mongol Empire and the Unification of Eurasia 507 Nikolay N. Kradin 19. The Ming Empire 533 David M. Robinson 20. The Delhi Sultanate as Empire 571 Sunil Kumar 21. Caliphs, Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Sultans: The Imperial Commonwealths of Medieval Islam and Western Christendom 597 Jacob Tullberg 22. The Venetian Empire 621 Luciano Pezzolo Contents ix 23. The Mali and Songhay Empires 648 Bruce S. Hall PART V. ANOTHER WORLD The Separate but Parallel Path of Imperial Formations in the Precolonial Americas 665 Peter Fibiger Bang 24. The Aztec Empire 671 Michael E. Smith and Maëlle Sergheraert 25. The Inca Empire 692 R. Alan Covey PART VI. THE GREAT CONFLUENCE The Culmination of Universal Empires and the Conquest of the New World: Agrarian Consolidation and the Rise of European Commercial and Colonial Empires (1450–1 750) 719 Peter Fibiger Bang 26. The Ottoman Empire 729 Dariusz Kołodziejczyk 27. The Mughal Empire 751 Rajeev Kinra 28. The Habsburg Monarchy and the Spanish Empire (1492–1 757) 789 Josep M. Delgado and Josep M. Fradera 29. The Qing Empire: Three Governments in One State and the Stability of Manchu Rule 810 Pamela Kyle Crossley 30. The Portuguese Empire (1415–1 822) 832 Francisco Bethencourt 31. The Dutch Seaborne Empire: Qua Patet Orbis 862 Leonard Blussé 32. The First British Empire: Atlantic Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy (1603–1 815) 884 Nicholas Canny PART VII. THE GLOBAL TURN The Age of European Colonialism, Subjection of Old Agrarian Empires to the European-L ed World Economy, and Nationalist Secessions (1750– 1914) 909 Peter Fibiger Bang