Inner Asia, 1100s-1405: The making of Chinggisid Eurasia -- The Nomadic Empires of Inner Asia -- Formation of the Mongol Empire -- Building the Empire -- Imperial identity -- A mandate to rule the world -- Legacies of the Mongol Empire -- Mongol decline and successor states -- The Great Ming and East Asia: The world order of a Han-Centric Chinese Empire, 1368-1644 -- Political legitimacy -- Imperial governance -- Monarchy and bureaucracy -- Community -- Frontier management -- Foreign relations with other East Asian states -- East Asia under the expanding Qing -- Jurchen origins -- Formation of the Manchus -- Imperial consolidation and expansion -- Institutions of Empire -- Control of frontiers and subjects -- The Qing in decline -- Qing legacies -- Southwest Asia, 1300-1800: Ottomans, safavids and the turco- persianate imperial tradition -- History of the imperial idea: Persia -- History of the imperial idea: Greco-roman world -- History of the imperial idea: Caliphate -- The Türkmen dynasties -- Ottomans: From beylik to sultanate -- Ottomans: Imperialism as crisis management -- Safavids: From sufi ar qah to millenarian empire -- Imperial self-understanding -- Imperial visions of world order -- Borderlands -- Institutions -- Ottoman and safavid legacies -- South Asia, 1400-1800: The Mughal Empire and the turco? Persianate imperial tradition -- Mughal conquests and imperial expansion -- Structure and institutions of the Mughal Empire -- Process of decline -- The South Asian context of Mughal notions of kingship and sovereignty -- Mughal Imperial ideas and the articulation of legitimacy -- Mughal interactions with other Empires -- Legacy of the Mughal Empire -- Northern Eurasia, 1300-1800: Russian Imperial practice from Tsardom to Empire -- Russia, Asia, Europe -- The rise and growth of Muscovy: A brief sketch -- Legitimation and imaginings -- Motivations -- Institutions and practices -- In search of "Empire" in mainland Southeast Asia -- Historiographical overview -- Towards a synthesis -- Kingship and ideology -- Comparative observations -- In search of "Empire" in the insular Malay world -- Srivijaya 700-1400: Seventh-century "Harbour City" or "imperial construct" -- Melaka, 1400-1600: Islamic city-state or a global Malay/Islamic Centre? -- State formation and the creation of "absolutist states" in insular Southeast Asia, c. 1500?1700 -- The case of Aceh -- The case of Johor -- The mainland/island dichotomy in Southeast Asia -- Iberian maritime Asia, 1497-1700s: The Portuguese and Spanish Empires in Asia -- The hybrid character of the Iberian Empires: Seaborne, maritime and territorial -- Transportation networks -- Networks of trade -- Catholic mission networks -- Formal Imperium and Territorial Empire -- The Iberian Empires and the great powers of Asia -- The Spanish territorial empire in the Philippines -- Informal conquests and freelance conquistadores -- Imperial lines of defence -- Social interaction and cultural exchange -- The Iberians and the other European Empires in Asia -- Twilight of Empire -- Chartered companies & Empire -- Research -- What is a chartered company? -- Era of the East India companies -- Why companies? -- Were the East India companies successful? -- Importance of the charter territory -- Were all chartered companies instruments of Empire? -- From companies to company states -- Legacies of the chartered companies
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