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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Colonization--History.

Colonization.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (493 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 far from

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-282-54409-8

9786612544095

0-19-971959-4

OCLC:

609863718