The rule of empires
Subtitle: those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall
By: Timothy Parsons.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford, [England]; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195304312
Subjects: Colonies -- History; Colonization -- History; Imperialism -- History
Table of contents: title: The subjects of empire; title: Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire; title: Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus; title: Spanish Peru : empire by franchise; title: Company India : private empire building; title: Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted; title: British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism; title: France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint; title: Imperial epitaph.