End of Empires

The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, globaland comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over along spectrum of humankind's history, ranging from Ancient History through ModernTimes. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizesthe reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All contributions locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supportedthe ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all thecontributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differencesas well as inconsistencies of historical processes.