Title |
The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons. |
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Publication Info. |
New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
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Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction
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325.3 PARSONS |
DUE 05-01-24 |
Description |
x, 480 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-471) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : 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 -- Conclusion : imperial epitaph. |
Subject |
Colonies -- History.
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Colonization -- History.
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Imperialism -- History.
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ISBN |
9780195304312 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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0195304314 (hc : acid-free paper) |
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