In this book Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. Using an array of archaeological iconographic and textual sources she offers a fresh account of one of the earliest well-attested imperialist polities of the ancient Near East. Glatz critically examines the complexity and ever transforming nature of imperial relationships and the practices through which Hittite elites and administrator