Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient empires continues to structure the modern world in many ways. Empires are best described as heterogeneous and dynamic patchworks of imperial configurations in which imperial power was the outcome of the complex interaction between evolving colonial structures and various types of agents in highly contingent relationships. The goal of this volume is to harness the work of the "next generation" of empire scholars in order to foster new theoretical and methodological perspectives that are of relevance within and beyond archaeology and to foreground empires as a cross-cultural category. This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

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Cover
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Bradley J. Parker in Memorium by Bleda S. Düring and Patrick Ryan Williams
Chapter 1. Archaeologies of Empire: An Introduction by Bleda S. Düring, Anna L. Boozer, and Bradley J. Parker
Chapter 2. Colonial Entanglements: Imperial Dictate, Individual Action, and Intercultural Interaction in Nubia by Stuart Tyson Smith
Chapter 3. The Great Wall as Destination? Archaeology of Migration and Settlers under the Han Empire by Alica Yao
Chapter 4. Inka Provinces of the Kallawaya and Yampara: Imperial Power, Regional Political Developments, and Elite Competition by Sonia Alconini
Chapter 5. Agents of Empire: Imperial Agendas and Provincial Realities in Roman Egypt by Anna L. Boozer
Chapter 6. The Assyrian Threshold: Explaining Imperial Consolidation in the Early Assyrian Empire by Bleda S. Düring
Chapter 7. Historical Time and Imperial Formation in Aztec Mexico by Lisa Overholtzer
Chapter 8. Wari and Tiwanka: Early Imperial Repertories in Andean South America by Patrick Ryan Williams, Donna Nash, and Sofia Chacaltana
Chapter 9. Re-modeling Empire by Bradley J. Parker
Chapter 10. Conclusions by Anna L. Boozer and Bleda S. Düring
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