Description
Book SynopsisAvailable online or as a four-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Empire provides exceptional in-depth, comparative coverage of empires throughout human history and across the globe.
Trade Review"This work by editor in chief MacKenzie (emer., Lancaster Univ.), assisted by historians Dalziel (independent scholar), Doumanis (Univ. of New South Wales), and Charney (independent scholar), offers a very thorough iteration of a common theme for reference works—empire. The project has an exhaustive list of contributors and an impressive advisory board to aid the editors." (Choice Connect 2016)
Table of ContentsVolume I
Lexicon vii
List of figures xxi
List of maps xxv
Editor-in-chief xxvii
Assistant editor xxix
Associate editors xxxi
Advisory board xxxiii
Notes on contributors xxxv
Preface lxxxi
Empires in world history: characteristics, concepts, and consequences lxxxiii
Maps cxi
Empire A–C 1–644
Volume II
Empire D–J 645–1232
Volume III
Empire K–R 1233–1842
Volume IV
Empire S-Z 1843–2302
Index 2303
