The articles of this comprehensive volume offer a multidisciplinary and global approach to the history of empires, analyzing their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume asked for the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual empires. All texts locate and highlight different factors that triggered or at least supported the ending or the implosion of empires. This overall question makes all the the contributions to this volume comparable and allows to detect similarities, differences as well as inconsistencies of historical processes.weiterlesen