TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons,Timothy
TI  - The rule of empires: those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall 
SN  - 9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper)
AV  - JV61 .P33 2010
U1  - 325/.3 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Colonies
KW  - History
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Imperialism
N1  - 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
ER  -