Editing Empire (section)

==Cited sources and further reading==
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* {{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Brown (historian) |date=24 September 2020 |title=No Barbarians Needed |journal=[[The New York Review of Books]] |volume=LXVII |issue=14 |pages=61–62 |quote=Warlordism, not any great movement of peoples, was the political virus that brought down the [[Western Roman Empire|Roman empire in the West]]. [...] 'In less than a generation, provinces [became] kingdoms.' [Due to Europe's] state of perpetual war [amid] the persistent polycentrism made possible by the disappearance of Rome, [b]y the time of the Reformation the 'competitive fragmentation of power' ensured that Europe was studded with safety zones that protected beleaguered dissidents. [...] The best thing that Rome ever did for Europe was to die and not return.}}, review of {{Cite book |last=Kulikowski |first=Michael |title=The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy |author-link=Michael Kulikowski}}; {{Cite book |last=Scheidel |first=Walter |title=Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity |author-link=Walter Scheidel}}; {{Cite book |last=Nelson |first=Janet L. |title=King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne |author-link=Janet L. Nelson}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Burbank |first1=Jane |title=Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference |last2=Cooper |first2=Frederick |date=2010 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-12708-8 |location=Princeton |author-link2=Frederick Cooper (historian)}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Eliot A. |author-link=Eliot A. Cohen |date=July–August 2004 |title=History and the Hyperpower |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2004-07-01/history-and-hyperpower |journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] |volume=83 |issue=4 |pages=49–63 |doi=10.2307/20034046 |jstor=20034046 |access-date=26 December 2017}}
* {{Cite book |last=Colomer |first=Josep |title=The European Empire |date=2016 |publisher=Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=978-1-5233-1890-2 |author-link=Josep Colomer}}
* {{Cite book |last=Colomer |first=Josep |url=http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415437752 |title=Great Empires, Small Nations. The uncertain future of the sovereign state |date=2007 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=London |author-link=Josep Colomer}}
* {{Cite book |title=Empires and bureaucracy in world history: from late antiquity to the twentieth century |date=2016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor-last=Crooks |editor-first=Peter |editor-last2=Parsons |editor-first2=Timothy H.}}
* {{Cite book |last=Darwin |first=John |title=After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1405 |date=2008 |publisher=Bloomsbury Press |location=London}}
* [[Wendy Doniger|Doniger, Wendy]], "The Rise and Fall of Warhorses" (review of [[David Chaffetz]], ''Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires'', Norton, 2024, 424 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXXII, no. 6 (10 April 2025), pp. 17–19. "Unlike cows, [[horse]]s, whose teeth are quite dull, pull up grass by the roots rather than biting off the blades, or they nibble it right down to the ground, thus quickly destroying the land, which may require some years to recover.... [H]orses in the wild... range constantly to find new territory... [T]he horse came to symbolize [[conquest]] through its own natural [[imperialism]]. The [[steppe]]s bred [[nomad]]ic horses and nomadic [[Eurasian nomads|horde]]s.... Men waged [[war]] to get other people's horses so that they could wage war. [[Horsepower]]... remained the basic unit of power for centuries.... But the [[horse-breeding]] people of the steppes never succeeded in conquering the part of the world west of the [[Carpathians]] and the [[Alps]], nor [[civilization]]s.... where [[sea power]]... was decisive." (p. 17.)  
* {{Cite book |last=Elliott |first=J.H. |title=Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 |date=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven}}
* {{Cite book |last1=Findlay |first1=Ronald |title=Power and Plenty: Trade, Power, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium |last2=O'Rourke |first2=Kevin H. |date=2007 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton}}
* {{Cite web |last=Galtung |first=Johan |date=January 1996 |title=The Decline and Fall of Empires: A Theory of De-Development |url=http://www.transcend.org/galt.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013085302/http://transcend.org/galt.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=2007-10-13 |access-date=2008-01-06 |location=Honolulu}} Written for the United Nations Research Institute on Development, UNRISD, Geneva.
* {{Cite book |last=Geiss |first=Imanuel |title=War and Empire in the Twentieth Century |date=1983 |publisher=Aberdeen University Press |isbn=978-0-08-030387-1}}
* {{Cite book |last=Gilpin |first=Robert |title=War and Change in World Politics |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-521-27376-3 |pages=110–116 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |author-link=Robert Gilpin}}
* {{Cite book |last=Howe |first=Stephen |title=Empire: A Very Short Introduction |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-280223-1}}
* {{Cite book |last=Innis |first=Harold |title=Empire and Communications |date=1950 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |edition=1972 revision |location=[[Toronto, Ontario]]}}, Rev. by Mary Q. Innis; foreword by Marshall McLuhan.
* {{Cite book |last1=James |first1=Paul |url=https://www.academia.edu/3587722 |title=Globalization and Violence |last2=Nairn |first2=Tom |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2006 |volume=1: Globalizing Empires, Old and New |location=London |author-link=Paul James (academic)}}
* {{cite journal |last=Khan |first= Iqtidar Alam |title=Gunpowder and Empire: Indian Case |journal=Social Scientist |volume=33 |number=3/4 |date=March–April 2005 |pages=54–65 |jstor=3518112}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kamen |first=Henry |title=Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763 |date=2003 |publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Paul |title=The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 |publisher=Random House 1987 |location=New York}}
* {{Cite book |last=Kumar |first=Krishan |title=Visions of empire: How five imperial regimes shaped the world |date=2019 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-19280-2}}, examines the Roman, Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, British and French empires.
* {{Cite book |last1=Lens |first1=Sidney |title=The Forging of the American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of American Imperialism |last2=Zinn |first2=Howard |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7453-2100-4 |page=464}}
* {{Cite book |last=Pagden |first=Anthony |title=Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest from Greece to the Present |date=2001 |publisher=Modern Library |location=New York}}
* {{Cite encyclopedia |editor-first=Peter |editor-last=Stearns |title=The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged |edition=6th |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-395-65237-4 |page=passim|publisher=Houghton Mifflin }}
* {{Cite book |last=Subrahmanyam |first=Sanjay |title=The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500–1700 |date=1993 |publisher=Longman |location=London}}
* {{Cite book |title=The Rise of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750 |date=1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor-last=Tracy |editor-first=James D. |location=New York}}
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