TY - BOOK AU - Parsons,Timothy ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The rule of empires: those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall AV - JV61 .P33 2010 U1 - 325/.3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford, [England], New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Colonies KW - History KW - Colonization KW - Imperialism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=516259 ER -