Encyclopedia of Empire
Encyclopedia of Empire
Editor: Mackenzie, John
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-11-844064-3
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
135
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Encyclopedia of Empire provides exceptional in-depth, comparative coverage of empires throughout human history and across the globe.
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Table of Contents
- A
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Aceh, Sultanate of
- Achaemenid Empire
- Adal Sultanate
- Administration and bureaucracy
- African kingdoms and empires
- Agriculture and empire
- Air power
- Ajuran Sultanate
- Akkadian Empire
- Aksum, Kingdom of
- al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia)
- Algiers, Ottoman Regency of
- America, United States of: 1. Continental expansion after 1776
- America, United States of: 2. Overseas empire
- America, United States of: 3. 20th century to the present
- Angevin (Plantagenet) Empire
- Angevin Empire (French “Second” Angevin dynasty)
- Anglo-Norman Empire
- Anthropology and empire
- Anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism
- Aragon, Crown of
- Archaeology and empire
- Architecture, imperial
- Aristocracies and kingship
- Armenia, Kingdom of (ancient)
- Asante Kingdom
- Assimilation and empire
- Assyrian Empire
- Astronomy and navigation
- Athenian Empire
- Austrian Empire (to 1867)
- Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918)
- Avar Khaganate
- Aztec Empire
- B
- Bactrian or Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Baekje (Paekje) Kingdom
- Bahmani Sultanate
- Bamana Empire of Segu
- Barbarians and barbarism
- Belgian Empire
- Bengal, Sultanate of
- Benin (Edo city-state)
- Boer War and Great Power relations
- Botany and empire
- Brazil, Empire of
- British Empire: 1. 1707–1914
- British Empire: 10. North America, to 1783
- British Empire: 11. North America (Canada), from 1783
- British Empire: 12. Southeast Asia
- British Empire: 2. From 1914
- British Empire: 3. Africa
- British Empire: 4. Australasia and Pacific
- British Empire: 5. Caribbean, 1624–1838
- British Empire: 6. Caribbean, 19th–20th centuries
- British Empire: 7. India, to 1858
- British Empire: 8. India, from 1858
- British Empire: 9. Indian Ocean
- Brunei, Sultanate of
- Buganda, Kingdom of
- Bulgarian Medieval Empire (First and Second)
- Bunyoro-Kitara, Kingdom of
- Burgundy, Duchy (States) of
- Burmese Empire
- Burundi, Kingdom of
- Byzantine Empire: 1. 330–650
- Byzantine Empire: 2. 650–1204
- Byzantine Empire: 3. 1204–1461
- C
- Capitalism and imperialism
- Carolingian Empire
- Carthaginian Empire
- Cartography and empire
- Cartography in the Russian Empire
- Cavalry and empires
- Central Javanese Empire (Early Mataram)
- Ceremonial and court culture
- Chaghadai Khanate
- Chalukya dynasty
- Chartered companies
- Chavin culture (pre-Moche)
- Chera Kingdom
- Chimu Empire
- China and treaty-port imperialism
- China, imperial: 1. Qin dynasty, 221–207 bce
- China, imperial: 2. Han dynasty, 206 bce–220 ce
- China, imperial: 3. 220–c.580
- China, imperial: 4. Sui, Tang, and Five dynasties periods, c.581–960
- China, imperial: 5. Song dynasty period, 960–1279
- China, imperial: 6. Yuan dynasty period, 1279–1368
- China, imperial: 7. Ming dynasty period, 1368–1644
- China, imperial: 8. Qing or Manchu dynasty period, 1636–1911
- China, People's Republic of
- Chola (Cola) Empire
- Choson (Joseon) Korea
- Christianity and empire
- Cinema and empire
- Cities, imperial
- Client states
- Collaborators and empire
- Colonies, variety of
- Confucianism
- Coronations and rituals
- Counterinsurgency
- Crimean Khanate
- Crusader States (Eastern Mediterranean)
- Cultural genocide
- D
- Dahomey, Kingdom of
- Danish Empire
- Deccan sultanates
- Decline of empires
- Decolonization
- Delhi Sultanate
- Dependency theory
- Dervish State (Somali)
- Diplomacy and empire
- Disease and medicine
- Dong Hu tribal confederation
- Drugs and empire
- Durrani Empire
- Dutch Empire: 1. Origins and organization
- Dutch Empire: 2. Africa
- Dutch Empire: 3. America and the Caribbean
- Dutch Empire: 4. East Indies
- E
- Eastern Ganga and Gajapati empires
- Economics of empire
- Egypt: 1. Ancient (New Kingdom)
- Egypt: 2. Ptolemaic
- Egypt: 3. Early medieval (Tulunid to Fatimid)
- Egypt: 4. Late medieval (including Syria: Ayyubid, Mamluk)
- Egypt: 5. Empire (Mehmed Ali dynasty)
- Elamite Kingdom
- Empire: Selected Maps
- Empires from the viewpoint of the colonized
- Empires in world history: characteristics, concepts, and consequences
- English Empire (British Isles and colonies to 1707)
- Enlightenment and empire
- Environment and empire
- Epirus, Kingdom of
- Ethiopian Empire
- European expansionism
- Exhibitions and expositions
- Exploration and empire
- F
- Financial institutions
- Food and famine
- Foreign interventionism
- Fortifications, imperial
- Forward policies
- French Empire: 1. General
- French Empire: 10. North America
- French Empire: 11. Pacific
- French Empire: 2. First or Napoleonic Empire
- French Empire: 3. Second Empire
- French Empire: 4. Third Republic
- French Empire: 5. Decolonization
- French Empire: 6. Africa
- French Empire: 7. Asia
- French Empire: 8. Caribbean
- French Empire: 9. Indian Ocean
- Frontiers and their control
- Fulani Empire (Sokoto)
- Funan, Kingdom of
- Funj Sultanate of Sinnar
- Futa Jalon
- Futa Toro
- G
- Gao Empire
- Gender and empire
- Genocide and empire
- Genoese Republic
- Georgia, Kingdom of
- Germany: 1. Colonialism, Early Modern period
- Germany: 2. Colonial empire
- Ghana, Empire of
- Ghurid Sultanate
- Globalization and empire
- Goguryeo Kingdom
- Golden Horde Khanate
- Goryeo (Koryo) Kingdom
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Gupta Empire
- Gurjara-Pratihara (Pratihara) Empire
- H
- Harsha Empire
- Hephthalite Khanate
- Hittite Empire
- Holy Roman Empire
- Hoysala Empire
- Humanitarianism and empire
- Hungary, medieval Kingdom of
- Hunnic Empire
- Hunting and empire
- Hurrian Kingdom of Urkesh
- I
- Ideology, imperial
- Ifat, Sultanate of
- Ifriqiya, medieval empires of (Aghlabid to Hafsid)
- Il-Khanate Empire
- Imperialism, theories of
- Inca (Tawantinsuyu) Empire
- Indo-Parthian Kingdom
- Indo-Scythian (Saka) Kingdom
- Informal empire
- Iran, Imperial State of
- Islam and empire
- Italian Empire
- Italo-Norman Empire
- J
- Japan (Sengoku period)
- Japanese Empire
- Johor-Riau Empire
- K
- Kaabu Kingdom
- Kadamba Kingdom
- Kakatiya Kingdom
- Kalmyk Khanate
- Kanem-Bornu Empire
- Karakhanid Khanate
- Kara-Khitan Khanate (Western Liao)
- Karkota dynasty of Kashmir
- Kazakh Khanate
- Kazan Khanate
- Khazar Khaganate
- Khitan (Liao) Empire
- Khmer Empire
- Khwarazmian Empire
- Kimek Khaganate
- Kong (Ouattara or Wattara) Empire
- Kongo, Kingdom of
- Kush, Kingdom of
- Kushan Empire
- Kyrgyz Khaganate
- L
- Lan Xang Kingdom (early Laos)
- Languages and empire
- Latin Empire (Constantinople)
- Lithuania, Grand Duchy of
- Lombard Kingdom
- Lozi Empire
- Luba–Lunda states
- Lydia, Kingdom of
- Lysimachus, Kingdom of
- M
- Macedonian Empire
- Magadha, Kingdom of
- Mahdist State (Sudan)
- Maitraka Empire
- Majapahit Empire
- Malagasy empires (Sakalava and Merina)
- Mali Empire
- Mandates, League of Nations’
- Maratha Empire
- Maravi Kingdom
- Martial race theory
- Marxism and imperialism
- Massina Empire
- Mataram, Sultanate of
- Material cultures of empire
- Maukhari Empire
- Mauryan Empire
- Median Empire
- Melaka (Malacca) Sultanate
- Migrants and migration
- Minoan civilization
- Miscegenation
- Missions and missionaries
- Mitanni Kingdom
- Mixtec Empire
- Mongol Empire, Great
- Morocco: 1. Medieval empires
- Morocco: 2. Later empire (from the 16th century)
- Mossi Empire
- Mughal Empire
- Muscat and Zanzibar, Sultanate of
- Music and empire
- Mycenaean civilization
- Mysore, Kingdom of
- N
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Nabobs
- Nanda Empire
- Nationalism and imperialism
- Nazi Empire
- Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) Empire
- Neo-colonialism
- Neo-Sumerian (Ur III) Kingdom
- Nguni empires
- Nogai Horde
- Nomads
- North Sea (Anglo-Scandinavian) Empire
- Norway, Kingdom of (13th–14th centuries)
- Novgorod Republic
- O
- Old Babylonian period
- Orientalism
- Ostrogoths, Kingdom of the
- Ottoman Empire
- Oyo (Yoruba) Empire
- P
- Pala Empire
- Pallavas of Kanchi
- Pandyan Empire
- Parhae, Kingdom of
- Parthian Empire
- Partition of Africa
- Pergamon, Kingdom of (Attalids)
- Persian Empire, early medieval (Saffarid to Buyid)
- Persian Empire, later (Afsharid to Qajar)
- Photography and empire
- Phrygian Kingdom
- Pisa, Republic of
- Poland, medieval (Piast dynasty)
- Policing and colonial control
- Polish–Lithuanian Empire
- Pontic Empire
- Popular imperialism
- Ports in ancient and medieval empires
- Ports, imperial
- Portuguese Empire: 1. Origins and development
- Portuguese Empire: 2. Africa
- Portuguese Empire: 3. America
- Portuguese Empire: 4. Asia
- Postcolonialism
- Posts and telegraphs, imperial
- Propaganda and empire
- R
- Race and empire
- Rai dynasty of Sind
- Railways and empire
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Rashtrakuta Empire
- Religion and empire
- Revolts, colonial
- Revolution and social change
- Roman Empire: 1. To 96 ce
- Roman Empire: 2. 96–180
- Roman Empire: 3. 180–395
- Roman Empire: 4. 395–476
- Rouran (Juan Juan) Khaganate
- Russia: 1. Rus‘ and the Riurikid dynasty (9th century to c.1240)
- Russia: 2. Moscow, Grand Duchy of (13th century to 1547)
- Russia: 3. Tsardom of Muscovy (1547–1721)
- Russia: 4. Empire (1721–1917)
- Russia: 5. Soviet (USSR)
- Rustamid Imamate
- Rwanda, Kingdom of
- S
- Safavid Empire
- Sailendra Empire of Java
- Sasanian Empire
- Satavahana Empire
- Science, imperial
- Scotland, Darien, and imperial ambition
- Scythian Empire
- Seleucid Empire
- Seljuk Empire, Great
- Seljuk Sultanate of Anatolia (Rum)
- Sena Empire
- Serbian Empire
- Settler empires
- Sex and empire
- Shibanid Empire
- Shipping, imperial
- Shona empires
- Shunga Kingdom
- Sibir‘, Khanate of
- Sikh Empire
- Silla, Kingdom of
- Singhasari Kingdom of Java
- Slave armies
- Slavery, institution of
- Soft power and empire
- Songhai Empire
- Spanish Empire: 1. Origins and organization
- Spanish Empire: 2. From 1580
- Spanish Empire: 3. The Americas
- Spartan Empire
- Sport: 1. Ancient empires
- Sport: 2. Modern empires
- Srivijaya, Kingdom of
- Steppe empires
- Subaltern Studies
- Sub-imperialism
- Suez Crisis and the end of empire
- Swedish Empire
- S
- Tangut Empire of the Great Xixia
- Tarascan (P'urhépecha) Empire
- Technology and empire
- Teotihuacan Empire
- Tepanec Empire
- Ternate, Sultanate of
- Teutonic Order, State of the
- Thai Kingdom
- Thalassocracies
- Tibetan Empire
- Timurid Empire
- Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) culture
- Toltec Empire
- Tourism and empire
- Trade and commerce
- Tributary systems
- Tuʻi Tonga Empire
- Tukulor Empire
- Türgesh Khaganate
- Türk Khaganate
- Turkoman confederations, the (Aqqoyunlu and Qaraqoyunlu)
- U
- Umayyad Caliphate
- ʿUqaylid Emirate
- Urartu, Kingdom of
- Uyghur Khaganate
- V
- Vakataka Kingdom
- Vandals, Kingdom of the
- Venetian Empire
- Vietnamese (Dai Viet) Empire
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Vishnukundina Empire
- Visigoths, Kingdom of the
- Visual communication in ancient empires
- Volga Bulgar Emirate
- W
- Wadai (Ouaddai) Empire
- Wahhabi Empire
- War, weaponry, and empire: 1. Ancient
- War, weaponry, and empire: 2. Modern
- Wari (Huari) culture
- Wars of independence
- Wars of religion
- Wassalou (Mandinka) Empire
- Western Satrap (Western Kshatrapa) Kingdom
- White Horde Khanate
- Wolof Empire
- World War I and empire
- World War II and empire
- X
- Xianbei Empire
- Xiongnu Empire
- Y
- Yap and the Yap Empire (Micronesia)
- Z
- Zapotec Empire
- Zünghar (Dzungar) Khanate