The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall - Parsons, Timothy, 1962- (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Colonies -- History; Colonization -- History; Imperialism -- History