This book explores the aspiration to universal, imperial rule across Eurasian history from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize: A new perspective on the concept of international jihad and its connection to the 1990s Balkans crisis. No contemp

The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of B

Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cosmopolitan cultural techniques through which ancient empires managed difference in order to establish reg

The first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.