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

By: Parsons, Timothy, 1962-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010Description: x, 480 p. : maps.Subject(s): Colonies -- History | Colonization -- History | Imperialism -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 325/.3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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325/.3 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.