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 / Timothy H. Parsons. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-471) and index.
Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : imperial epitaph.
9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper) 0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper)
2009044192
Colonies--History.
Colonization--History.
Imperialism--History.
JV61 / .P33 2010 / P267r 2010
325/.3
The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-471) and index.
Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : imperial epitaph.
9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper) 0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper)
2009044192
Colonies--History.
Colonization--History.
Imperialism--History.
JV61 / .P33 2010 / P267r 2010
325/.3