Parsons, Timothy,  1962- <br/><br/>
The rule of empires  those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall /  [electronic resource] : 
Timothy H. Parsons. 
 - Oxford, [England] ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  c2010. 
 - x, 480 p. :  maps. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2010. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Colonies--History.<br/>Colonization--History.<br/>Imperialism--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JV61  / .P33 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>325/.3