Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and

Empires were the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world. Empires have "risen" and "fallen" in all parts of the globe over several millennia, yet there has been surprisingly little comparative analysis of them. This book is designed to fill that gap by bringing together distinguished scholars in anthropology, archaeology, history, and the classics. The empires discussed are drawn from Central and South America, the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East, South East Asia, and China, ranging from the first millennium BC to the early modern era.

Preface
Sources, Approaches, Definitions
The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier
Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado de India
The Wari empire of Middle Horizon Peru: the epistemological challenge of documenting an empire without documentary evidence
The Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-c. 330 BCE): continuities, adaptations, transformations
Empires in a Wider World
The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican world system
On the edge of empire: form and substance in the Satavahana dynasty
Dynamics of imperial adjustment in Spanish America: ideology and social integration
Imperial Integration and Imperial Subjects
Politics, resources, and blood in the Inka Empire
Egypt and Nubia
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Imperial Ideologies
Aztec hearts and minds: religion and the state in the Aztec empire
Inventing empire in ancient
The reconfiguration of memory in the eastern Roman empire
Cosmos, central authority, and communities in the early Chinese empire
The Afterlife of Empires
The fall of the Assyrian empire: ancient and modern interpretations
The Carolingian empire: Rome reborn?
Cuzco, another Rome?
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