The rule of empires :
Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
9780195304312 (acidfree paper)
2009044192
JV61 / .P33 2010
325/.3
The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - x, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and 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.
9780195304312 (acidfree paper)
2009044192
JV61 / .P33 2010
325/.3