Empires - by Phyllis Jestice (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This sweeping, beautifully illustrated hardback provides an essential guide to empires in history from the ancient world to the modern day.

In Empires, Phyllis Jestice explores the rise and fall of empires from across history and throughout the globe. Covering such important questions as what is an empire and how do they come about, Empires seeks to explain the place of empires in world history and explores the conquests, the international rivalries, the tensions and the resistances that defined their course.

More than 30 different empires are examined in this book, including:
- The Assyrian Empire
- The Roman Empire
- The Mongol Empire
- The Aztec Empire
- The Spanish Empire
- The British Empire
- The Japanese Empire

Featuring maps, illustrations, timelines and photographs, it makes for an essential overview of world history.

About the Author

Phyllis G. Jestice is Professor of Medieval History and Chair of the Department of History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She has been president of the Southeastern Medieval Association and has received several awards for her teaching and academic work. Phyllis has written and taught about subjects ranging from the Vikings to medieval Germany to the Crusades. Some of her recent works include The Pharaohs (2023), A History of the Middle Ages (2025) and The Renaissance (2026).