The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall /

Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / [electronic resource] : Timothy H. Parsons. - Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010. - x, 480 p. : maps.

Includes index.

The subjects of empire -- Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire -- Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus -- Spanish Peru : empire by franchise -- Company India : private empire building -- Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted -- British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism -- France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint -- Imperial epitaph.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780199719594 (electronic bk.)




Colonies--History.
Colonization--History.
Imperialism--History.


Electronic books.

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