Parsons, Timothy,  1962- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-471) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper) 0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009044192 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Colonies--History.<br/>Colonization--History.<br/>Imperialism--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JV61  / .P33 2010  / P267r 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>325/.3