Table of Contents

Volume I

Lexicon vii

List of figures xxi

List of maps xxv

Editor-in-chief xxvii

Assistant editor xxix

Associate editors xxxi

Advisory board xxxiii

Notes on contributors xxxv

Preface lxxxi

Empires in world history: characteristics, concepts, and consequences lxxxiii

Maps cxi

Empire A–C 1–644

Volume II

Empire D–J 645–1232

Volume III

Empire K–R 1233–1842

Volume IV

Empire S-Z 1843–2302

Index 2303

About the Author

John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus of Imperial History at Lancaster University. In addition he holds honorary professorships of St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has edited the Studies in Imperialism series of Manchester University Press for the past 30 years, a series now encompassing over 100 books. He has authored and edited many publications on the history of the British Empire and has travelled extensively throughout the former empires of Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Reviews

"This work by editor in chief MacKenzie (emer., Lancaster Univ.), assisted by historians Dalziel (independent scholar), Doumanis (Univ. of New South Wales), and Charney (independent scholar), offers a very thorough iteration of a common theme for reference works—empire.  The project has an exhaustive list of contributors and an impressive advisory board to aid the editors." (Choice Connect 2016)