The volume brings together more than 30 papers grouped in five sections: 1. Empires, models and imperial politics: issues and historiographies, 2. Politics, administration and society within the Empires from Middle Age, 3. Politics, administration and societies within the Empires from Modern Epoch, 4. Constructions and Imperial strategies in Romanian space in XX century, 5. Consequences and echoes of imperial politics in recent history. Authors such as Emil Dragnev, Barbu Ştefănescu, Andrei Cuşco, Victor Taki, Gabriel Moisa, Igor Şarov, Florin Sfrengeu, Şerban Turcuş, Ioan-Aurel Pop, Ion Eremia, Mihai Georgiţă, Sorin Şipoş, Florina Ciure, Ioan Ciorba, Bodo Edith, Cristian Apati, Valentin Tomuleţ, Ion Gumenâi, Ludmila Coadă, Andreana Brândaş and Emilia-Adina Gale, Mircea Brie, Ovidiu Mureşan, Radu Românaşu, Dana Pantea, Adrian – Claudiu Popoviciu, Octavian Ţîcu, Florentina Chirodea, Polgar Istvan, Gheorghe Palade, Antonio Faur, Teodor Candu, Penka Peeva, Alina Stoica, Mihai Drecin, Ion Zainea, Cristina Dogot, Sergiu Musteaţă, Titus Fizeşan, Ioan Horga, Dorin Ioan Dolghi, Luminiţa Şoproni, Constantin Ţoca express interesting points of view related to the history of Romania and Bessarabia, found at the confluence of three great empires. The papers presented in the volume includes topics such as byzantine inheritance in Eastern Europe, hisorical reality and historiographical ideas between the Austrian „iron yoke” and Turkish „wooden yoke”; contruction of Bessarebia, Imperial and National models; historiographical imperialism at East and West of Romania; Russian historiography between political and historical discourse; anti-imperial attitudes in Latin-Hungarian cronicals; Dominus totius mundi, Christianitas and Transylvania at the beginning of XIII century; The politics directed against the „schismatics” from Transylvania and western parts in XIVth century; the Moldavian – Russian treaty from 1656; Confession, religion and society under the Turkish rule in Oradea; the religious policy of the Court of Vienna in the ...
