Images

Illustration of a Janissary's uniform, drawing by John Heaviside Clark, included in Thomas McLean's The Military Costume of Turkey. Illustrated by a Series of Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot, plate 5, 1818. This image of an early...

Painting of Admiral Miklós Horthy, oil on canvas painting by Philip de László, Gödöllő, 1927. This painting depicts Admiral Miklós Horthy, regent of Hungary during the interwar period and most of World War II. Hungarian National Gallery...

A map of the Dutch commercial empire which reached its height during the Dutch Golden Age (c. 1588-1672), when the Dutch Republic (1588-1795) emerged as one of the world’s foremost maritime and economic powers. Unlike many territorial empires...

The Norman world (c. 10th–13th centuries CE) was not a single unified empire, but a far-reaching network of Norman-ruled principalities, kingdoms, military expeditions, and frontier lordships connected through conquest, migration, marriage...

Imperial expansion has been one of the most significant forces shaping world history, transforming regional states into vast, multiethnic empires that connected distant peoples, economies, and cultures. From the rise of the Achaemenid Empire...

A photograph showing a detail of a Canadian Bell piano with ivory and ebony keys.

A c. 1902 photograph showing Africans transporting ivory in French Congo.

A late-19th-century photograph of an ivory trading station (factory) in French Congo. Private Collection.

An 1880s photograph of ivory traders in East Africa.

Portrait of Sultan Mahmud II, oil on canvas painting by Athanasios Karantz(ou)las, c. 1850. A reformer, Sultan Mahmud II implemented numerous changes to the Ottoman state, which among many included the disbandment of the Janissary Corps...