The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall /

Main Author: Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10392215
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Imperial epitaph.