The Reawakening of Ancient Empires

This book evaluates the stagnant status of the field of Comparative Imperial History, primarily challenging the field's foundational assumptions by Lenin and Hobson which have hitherto gone substantially unchallenged. The work looks at how three Empires transformed the Ancient World – Rome, China, and Assyria - and advances a new theory of how Ancient Imperial Governments functioned economically. The book engages extensively with the Neo-Assyrian Period, Early Han Dynasty of China, and Rome...