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The rule of empires : those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / Timothy H. Parsons.

Author/creator Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionx, 480 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009044192
ISBN9780195304312 (acid-free paper)