Empires to be remembered

By applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of ?empires"which are generally not in the focus of empires studies. They are studied indetail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history andreception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an importantelement in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less underdeveloped.The volume singles out a series of such "forgotten empires". It aims to providea methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach.It develops a general set of questions that help to compare and distinguish theseentities. This way the volume intends to examine and to illuminate empires that aregenerally ignored by modern scholarship.