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

Author
Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 480 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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 -- Imperial epitaph.
Summary
In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire and offers suggestions about what empires of the past can tell us about our own historical moment. Parsons uses imperial examples that stretch from ancient Rome, to Britain's "new" imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich to parse the features common to all empires, their evolutions and self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline. Parsons argues that
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ISBN
9780199719594 (electronic bk.)
0199719594 (electronic bk.)
9780195304312 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0195304314 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780190254698 (electronic bk.)
0190254696 (electronic bk.)
1282544098
9781282544093
9786612544095
6612544090
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010.
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