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008			091026s2010 nyub b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2009044192
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn704544923
040			_aDLC _cN15
020			_a9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper)
020			_a0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)704544923
050	1	4	_aJV61 _b.P33 2010
082	0	0	_a325/.3 _222
050	1	4	_bP267r 2010
100	1		_aParsons, Timothy, _d1962-
245	1	4	_aThe rule of empires : _bthose who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / _cTimothy H. Parsons.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2010.
300			_ax, 480 p. : _bmaps ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 451-471) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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.
650		0	_aColonies _xHistory.
650		0	_aColonization _xHistory.
650		0	_aImperialism _xHistory.
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999			_c33667 _d33667