LEADER 02678nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910459068703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-54409-8 010 $a9786612544095 010 $a0-19-971959-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000015126 035 $a(EBL)516259 035 $a(OCoLC)609863718 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365499 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12102015 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365499 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413689 035 $a(PQKB)10492742 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC516259 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL516259 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10392215 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL254409 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000015126 100 $a20091026d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rule of empires$b[electronic resource] $ethose who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall /$fTimothy H. Parsons 210 $aOxford, [England] ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (493 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-530431-4 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aColonies$xHistory 606 $aColonization$xHistory 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aColonies$xHistory. 615 0$aColonization$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 676 $a325/.3 700 $aParsons$b Timothy$f1962-$0885247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459068703321 996 $aThe rule of empires$92154919 997 $aUNINA