This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with

Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.

The Affect of Difference is a collection of essays offering a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia. Contributors app

This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The history of Jerusalem as traditionally depicted is the quintessential history of conflict and strife, of ethnic tension, and of incompatible national narrati