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The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper)
  • 0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • JV61 .P33 2010
  • P267r 2010
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JV61 .P33 2010 | P267r 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000090673

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.

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