01540cam a2200313 a 4500 15960497 BD-DhAAL 20130725095840.0 130725s2010 enkb b 001 0 eng 2009044192 9780195304312 (acidfree paper) (OCoLC)ocn457160499 DLC DLC IG# YDXCP UKM BWX CDX NLGGC VP@ DLC BD-DhAAL JV61 .P33 2010 325/.3 22 Parsons, Timothy, 1962- 2302 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. 27264 Colonies History. 2303 Colonization History. 2304 Imperialism History. 2305 Ayesha Abed Library ddc BK 13710 13710 0 0 ddc 0 325_300000000000000_PAR 0 22952 IGS IGS GEN 2013-07-25 Paragon 2209.00 0 325.3 PAR 3010027264 2013-07-25 1 2013-07-25 BK