{"product_id":"the-end-of-empires-9783658368753","title":"The End of Empires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductionDecline, Collapse, Fall, or just Transformation: Diverging Ends of Empires through Time and Space\u003cbr\u003eAntiquity\u003cbr\u003eDer Zusammenbruch des mesopotamischen Staates von AkkadeThe Decline of the Ur III dynasty – The End of an Empire and its Afterlife in the Collective Memory of Mesopotamian SocietiesThe Collapse of the Hittitie KingdomThe End of New Kingdom EgyptThe End of the Neo-Assyrian EmpireThe “End” of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in DialogueThe End of the Roman Empire: Civil Wars, the Imperial Monarchy, and the End of AntiquityThe End of the Parthian Arsacid EmpireThe End of the Ērānšahar: The Decline of the Sasanian EmpireThe End of the Kushan Empire\u003cbr\u003eIslam\/Muslim World\u003cbr\u003eFrom Universalism to RegionalismThe Question of the Break-Up of the Abbasid Empire RevisitedThe End of the Mongol EmpireThe End of the Timurid Empire\u003cbr\u003eAfrica, Asia, China\u003cbr\u003eThe Decline and Collapse of the Kingdom of Aksum (6th-7th cent. AD): An Environmental Disaster or the End of a Political Process?What Role did Climate Change Play in the Decline of the Tang Dynasty?Thoughts about The Decentralization of the Mughal EmpireHow do Empires Fall? Two Case Studies from Pre-modern Southeast Asia\u003cbr\u003eThe Americas\u003cbr\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Inca Empire The Downfall of Aztec Rule, 1519-21\u003cbr\u003eMiddle Age and Modern History\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall of the Napoleonic EmpireDas Ende des Spanischen KolonialreichesThe End of the Portuguese Colonial EmpireDas Ende des polnisch-litauischen Großreichs als Diskussionsfrage\u003cbr\u003eThe End of World War I\u003cbr\u003eStructural Problems, Personal Failure or just Contingency? The End of the Russian EmpireThe End of the German Empire 1918?The End of the Habsburg MonarchyThe Long Lasting End of the Ottoman Empire\u003cbr\u003eThe End of World War II and the Cold War\u003cbr\u003eDas Ende des faschistischen ImperiumsThe Rise and Fall of Hitler’s Empire (1933–1945)The End of the USSRA Never – Ending Empire? The Decline of the United KingdomAmerica’s Decline on Display: The Presidential Transition\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021180404055,"sku":"9783658368753","price":52.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783658368753.jpg?v=1750785381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-empires-9783658368753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}